cross-posted from: piefed.ca/post/114822
Spotify is European.
It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so:
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ChronicEntertainment@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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george@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
So what, it is an incredibly evil company.
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Deezer is 41 percent owned by Access Industries (an American company) which is owned by a Russian billionaire.
ChronicEntertainment@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
There appears to be a lot of issues in this image…
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
There’s no simple solution to what this image proposes.
dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
Glen_McHardt@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
PushButton@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
confuser@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
TeddE@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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)
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No Proton Mail or Jitsi Meet?
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or nord… it has a cloud service
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or Facebook => Friendica?
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
A better resource: www.goeuropean.org
Also useful: isitamerican.eu
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Would prefer Canadian
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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?
themadcodger@kbin.earth 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It sure is… stops the less technical, of course
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
ell1e@leminal.space 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
OnlyOffice is Russian which they try to hide by using shell companies abroad.
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.
Dequei@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
What about Ecosia or Mailbox
ChronicEntertainment@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Good option. I’m thinking of oceanhero too, although idk what it’s search engine is
spongebue@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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!
n3cr0@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but…
Doesn’t Mixcloud belong to meta/facebook?
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Mixcloud on Wikipedia - doesn’t look like it
VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
karma search? never heard about it…Aaaaannd it’s not available in my country.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t Claude French? I thought that was European already?
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Spotify is Swedish and registered in Luxembourg?
cookie019@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Will you replace visa/mastercard? If no there is no real independence.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.