Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)

parzival@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  According to a wikipedia search that I could cross reference more, Proton AG is 500 employees and Alphabet is 190k (380 times Proton).

  What is your definition of big tech? I was only including huge monopolistic monoliths, are they “huge tech”?

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  • parzival@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market

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    • Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My strategy about that is to avoid putting all my eggs on the same basket :

      • Not using proton pass while bitwarden works like a charm
      • Sticking to a custom domain for my mail address to ease a future migration

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• ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org

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  • parzival@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’re based in sweden, but def still big tech

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, they’re based in Switzerland

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      • parzival@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        oh yeah sorry I misread

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