Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
  • Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Possibly a dumb question, but what exactly constitutes a “US-based digital service?” For example, does that mean everything on github is off limits? I wouldn’t think so (and actually I’m kind of surprised that so many projects stayed on github after it was bought by Microsoft). Me being me, I’ve started going through my various account entries on KeePass, and changing the favicon of the site/service with the flag of the country it’s based in (to the best of my knowledge). Many of them will be US-based, and this is probably unavoidable, but the more I can reasonably minimize the number of 🇺🇸s, the better.

    • bananoidandroid@feddit.nuEnglish
      111·
      19 hours ago

      While passing on american products in general is a good thing, not all products are equal. Signal is far better for privacy than anything in europe currently. Until there is a good option, supporting an open source non-profit company won’t give the US any profits from your usage. And that’s what really counts. To be honest, signal is the only safe system currently. What makes it unsafe is proprietary software on the clients it’s being used on like IOS or whatever android branch it’s used on.

      We really should have something, especially as privacy in europe is really in danger with the chatcontrol agenda. We need both an operating system, and safe communication made in europe, and even more importantly, EU legislation that prevents things like chatcontrol even to be considered.

    • darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      20 hours ago

      Let’s say Signal goes full maga. The chats are encrypted and there are no subscriptions or ads. What are the downsides?

      • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.mlEnglish
        10·
        19 hours ago

        I’m currently using Signal, and happy with it, but they still don’t have reproducible builds, making it impossible to confirm that the code we can read on GitHub is actually what is running on my device

        So, even now, it could be doing something that isn’t able to be audited

        I guess Element/Matrix or Briar are the better options from this perspective, without losing any end to end encryption