Regardless of age verification, europeans should definitely move to lemmy.

Fediverse already exists, with all its tools and instances (Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, etc). It’s democratic, as anyone can host an instance or join an instance where they are accepted.

We don’t need more centralized copycats.

I approve the “Cory Doctorow’s law”.

Not worth it. It could be as cheap as Southeast Asia and there would still be way better places to go.

MySQL is dead

There is still software that is only shipped through:

1. Proprietary installer
2. Snap

It would be great if they would move to Flatpak.

Because he has a spine.

Finally, some good news.

It is becoming evident that Merz is just a puppet.

Nice initiative, but perhaps some effort should be spent in collaboration and communication between people working with a similar goal.

In the last few months we were presented with the following initiatives:

• https://european-alternatives.eu/
• https://www.goeuropean.org/
• https://eualternatives.directory/
• https://eutechmap.com/
• https://european-alternatives.cloud/

And now: https://bigswitch.eu/

It is not bad per se, and I welcome all contributions. All of these are valuable.

I think the effort might be being duplicated instead of focusing on collaboration.

Tailscale or Netbird, any of them is better than setting up DDNS and securing the network access yourself.

Good job. However, I fear these directories are popping up like mushrooms, and none of them will end up being comprehensive and up-to-date.

I can remember of:

• https://european-alternatives.eu/
• https://www.goeuropean.org/
• https://eualternatives.directory/
• https://eutechmap.com/

And now https://european-alternatives.cloud/

Hungary must change its government or leave the EU. The current government stance doesn’t adhere to the European values, and the government alliances don’t match with the remaining EU countries or EU as a whole.

Result: It is possible and cheaper. The rest are details.

France, Spain, Denmark, and a couple of others already understood what’s happening and started to put things in motion. Most are still frozen in the expectation or in denial. On the other end of the spectrum, Hungary and Slovakia seem to be lost cases until they elect different people to the driver’s seat.

He is right. Some other EU countries are too afraid to face the facts.

KDE is awesome. Congrats to all people involved with it.

Others should follow

Does this site offer an API?

I haven’t found one of the many directories (https://www.goeuropean.org/, https://european-alternatives.eu/, etc.) that offer an API to this data. More than listing alternatives, for real adoption, we need to put this information in front of regular users when they need to use/pick one of the non-EU products/services.