I have now completed transferring all my applications from #DigitalOcean to #Scaleway. Still got a couple minor things to sort out, but the bulk is done.

Until 2 weeks ago, I have never had any problems with DigitalOcean. They provided good, stable, cheap, not-exactly-big-tech cloud services that I have used personally and professionally. I have a problem with their #government – personally, not speaking as a professional here.

DigitalOcean is located in the #US, which leads to two problems that can no longer be ignored:

1) the introduction of the #CLOUD act gives US governments rights to spy on any service provided by a US-owned company, even if that is hosted elsewhere. This was a problem when enacted in 2018, and has become even worse in 2025 when the US demonstrated it is willing and able to abuse this power for #political reasons.

2) by paying for US cloud services, I am indirectly supporting the US. It is entirely #unethical to support the US, a #hostile #regime.

Sure, this is not directly attributable to DigitalOcean; they may be as much a victim of the US government as anybody else. Sucks for them. Maybe do better at voting next time and elect a government that doesn't actively drive away customers?

Oh, and two weeks ago, somebody at DigitalOcean rolled around in a pile of s̵h̵i̵t̵ #AI and smeared big stinking globs of t̵u̵r̵d̵ #LLM all over the cloud console, making it much worse to use. This is absolutely not a point in their favor, though #DigitalSoverignty is the main driver for me leaving.

Upcoming European office suite stack "Euro-office" was announced. It is not a single product, but a form of collaboration between Nextcloud, OpenProject, Xwiki and others. The interesting part is that for document editing they chose OnlyOffice, but instead of collaboration model, it was forked. Makes sense because it seems to be rooted in russia, but I have no idea how much devs and years you need to continue development of a seemingly massive product. Do they bet on AI? For the long term, I hope not. Interesting choice, however.

https://www.xda-developers.com/euro-office-free-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-365-google-docs/

#eurooffice
#digitalsoverignty

"Carrez explained: "We've seen old alliances between the US and the EU being questioned or leveraged for immediate gains. We have seen the very terms of exchange of goods changing almost every day. And as a response to that, in Europe, we're moving to digital sovereignty." That shift, in turn, means open-source software. "
https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-giants-is-built-on-open-source-and-its-gaining-steam/
#openSource #digitalSoverignty #EU