cross-posted from: piefed.ca/post/114822
Deezer is 41 percent owned by Access Industries (an American company) which is owned by a Russian billionaire.
It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so:
Submitted 7 hours ago by ChronicEntertainment@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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Melonpoly@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
ChronicEntertainment@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
There appears to be a lot of issues in this image…
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 hours ago
There’s no simple solution to what this image proposes.
george@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Spotify is European.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
That’s a real Sophie’s choice there. Or, reverse Sophie’s choice. Spotify isn’t American, but it’s also a horrible horrible company to support.
Piracy is my choice here.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Also thirft stores are full of CDs and hipsters still haven’t gotten to them so they are pretty cheap!
idefix@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Piracy doesn’t have an easy way to discover new songs (somethind Deezer is much better at than Spotify). I’ll probably try Qobuz soon.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Their headquarters are still in EU but if you look a little closer almost everything else is US business, incl. Trump & Thiel. Servers are Google’s.
So “boycott US digital services” still very much applies.
george@feddit.org 3 hours ago
A lot of European tech companies rely on American infrastructure, since there aren’t many EU alternatives to what AWS and the like offer.
But I see your point
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
So what, it is an incredibly evil company.
PushButton@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
With all the encryption backdoor talks in the EU, the 18+ age check from the UK (OK technically not EU), I am not sure that “service located in the EU” is actually a good thing anymore.
dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
BeReal and Soundcloud are huge commercial and proprietary services. The criteria on the left are quite misleading, when not applied to all applications that are recommended.
confuser@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I really wish there was a better version of these kinds of graphics that showed all options better, I guess that would end up being more like a website because there’s so many and followable links are nice, it would end up looking like one of the privacy guide websites but I wish there was something that was less privacy and alternatives focused and was more about giving more options in general because not everyone cares about privacy specifically or being green or whatever else.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
No Proton Mail or Jitsi Meet?
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Or nord… it has a cloud service
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Or Facebook => Friendica?
Glen_McHardt@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Cool graphic, but I’m not sure if arte and mubi are comparable to Netflix and co, at least not for me as a casual viewer. Their selections seem to be more niche.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
A better resource: www.goeuropean.org
Also useful: isitamerican.eu
TeddE@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Just a quick reminder, if you give yourself some time and a small budget (or upcycle older tech), there are good (sometimes great) alternatives to everything listed here that you can build yourself (often pretty quickly, thanks to docker)
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
I don’t care if it’ll have low impact I’m going to boycott teams anyway.
Should be against the human rights convention, Microsoft went out of the way to make the worst possible program that one.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 3 hours ago
For a cloud service, as such, I’d go for Nextcloud - though it is getting to be a huge behemoth again. Others exist though, and self host your nextcloud is even better!
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Moving to lemmy is the hard one? I mean I just made an account and started posting. Did I skip a step or something?
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
it’s hard because you’re leaving the critical mass of users for niche communities. Lemmy only really works for large communities like this one.
themadcodger@kbin.earth 4 hours ago
The Fediverse is "hard" because you have to pick a server. And that's apparently enough to stop normies from going any further.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 3 hours ago
It sure is… stops the less technical, of course
hddsx@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Would prefer Canadian
n3cr0@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but…
Doesn’t Mixcloud belong to meta/facebook?
Kissaki@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Mixcloud on Wikipedia - doesn’t look like it
ell1e@leminal.space 6 hours ago
Does anybody know a Youtube that has videos about tech tinkering, crafting, and making art? I’ve tested out Odysee once, but it was full of right-wing xenophobic stuff, which seemed to keep the leftist artist and creative crowd away. Also, Odysee was unusable from a slow mobile connection since it often didn’t offer a lower bitrate stream…
ChronicEntertainment@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Well there are the various PeerTube instances, of which tilvids is one I use a bit. You do need to search specific tags for the things you like. Here is a list of fediverse branches
ell1e@leminal.space 6 hours ago
Does PeerTube have a better discovery algorithm than Mastodon? I have found simply tags and newest doesn’t work for me.
QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 5 hours ago
The best way to handle transitioning from YouTube is to use GrayJay. Follow creators that you like and when any of them have a platform on a different service, subscribe to them there.
Besides YouTube, it supports any PeerTube instance, Patreon, Twitch, Nebula, Odysee, Rumble, Dailymotion, Ted Talks, etc.
zonnewin@feddit.nl 3 hours ago
OnlyOffice is Russian which they try to hide by using shell companies abroad.
Kissaki@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Isn’t Claude French? I thought that was European already?
Dequei@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
What about Ecosia or Mailbox
ChronicEntertainment@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Good option. I’m thinking of oceanhero too, although idk what it’s search engine is
spongebue@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
US Digital Services is a very specific thing already, and not in the way you’re saying. It was basically hijacked to turn into DOGE. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a boycott of that too (whatever that may look like) but… This isn’t that.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Spotify is Swedish and registered in Luxembourg?
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Isn’t Europe currently focused on increasing the amount of tracking and IDing of people on the internet?
cookie019@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Will you replace visa/mastercard? If no there is no real independence.
VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 4 hours ago
karma search? never heard about it…Aaaaannd it’s not available in my country.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
“Cloud” is just personal storage. Not really full cloud services, and strong chance they are hosted on one or more of the US cloud providers. For instance, Dropbox is hosted on AWS, as is iCloud. It’s likely that the storage solutions run by European companies are ultimately hosted on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Having Lemmy represented as an icon does us no favors. Hard to search for an icon when you don’t know what it means.