TutaBuy #European is trending. What are you favorite European brands? 🇪🇺
In our latest guide, we take a look at the best European products you can use 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products
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Aleksei 🇪🇪@Tutanota Isn't vivaldi a closed-source wrapper from chromium? That's doesn't scream "privacy focused" to me.
Kinoc-Kayfar ΘΔ⌛@Tutanota Element (Matrix), Tuta and Mastodon
Jan PenfratYes, "Buy #European" is trending but it also sucks. A lot.
Hear me out: I understand and also feel the urge for tech #independence, particularly from the US, right now.
But just because something is European doesn't make it good or ethical.
@Tutanota People shouldn't trust you because you're "from Europe" or German or whatever. But because you have an #ethical business model, employ good people, care about your users, respect #humanrights and build free and #opensource software.
@Tutanota As long as we talk about tech independence or digital #sovereignty primarily in terms of geography and jurisdiction, we will lose as users and as people with rights:
1. Because this narrative can easily be co-opted by antidemocratic, nationalistic forces.
2. It takes away attention from what actually provides us with independence: software #freedom, #interoperability, a power shift away from #bigtech to small, decentralised, ethical tech.
3. It gives praise to entities...
3. It gives praise to entities that don't deserve it just because they are "European". Point in case: the certainly well-intentioned @goeuropean project, which recommends (among many very ethical companies) some really terrible "European alternatives", e.g.:
* #Volkswagen, #Audi, that built cheat software into their cars to make them look cleaner
* #Inditex, #Zalando, some of the worst #fastfashion polluters
* #RedBull, the drinks company owned by an Austrian far-right #billionaire
@ilumium @goeuropean You are right, not everything from Europe is good. Thanks for the insight, that's very helpful!
José Carlos García Luengo@ilumium @Tutanota @goeuropean
You are right! That's why I use reference sites like switching.software for more ethical software solutions
You are right! That's why I use reference sites like switching.software for more ethical software solutions
GLC
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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO
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I understand where you're coming from but do not agree that it sucks. Au contraire:
The number of US products whose parent companies operate ethically and sustainably but European alternatives don't are neglectable. If somebody cannot live without these products, I'd prefer employment and taxes in Europe.
That being said: I wish there was a website that lists all products and services regardless of origin (country) that are owned or run by far-right and/or authocratic >>>
>>> persons or COVID denialists/minimizers, examples being Müller Milch products or Rapunzel products.
It would be a great help for those of us who'd like to spend their money wisely.
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Gerard Cunningham ✒️
fedops 💙💛
nictakiego@Tutanota Well, FOSS is FOSS no matter where its head maintainer is, but my favourite european project is @organicmaps @organicmaps, therefore @openstreetmap . I don't remember when I used google maps last time (okay rarely I use Waze maps, but its not formerly google maps)
scuti🌱@Tutanota Not sure if this is over new tariffs, the military alliance or current war. Does Tuta at least remain in opposition to government surveillance?
@scuti Definitely, we even protect against powerful state-sponsored surveillance with quantum-safe encryption.
Maxim Loick@Tutanota trackle natürlich!
I don't like it when someone dictates what I should or shouldn't use. Boycotting U.S. capitalists and switching to EU capitalists — it’s all the same bullshit.
Adam Wysokiński@Tutanota Here's a list I'm compiling: https://fediscience.org/@adam_wysokinski/114026264632223299
Adam Wysokiński (@[email protected])
Let's compile a list of non-US based computer technologies/applications for people looking for alternatives. Here are some that I use daily: #Obsidian MD (Canada) #SublimeText (Australia) #Spotify (Sweden) #Vivaldi (Norway) #Tuta (Germany) #Codeberg (Germany) #Suunto (Finland) #Runalyze (Germany) #Mistral (France) #Wise (UK) #Sync (Canada) #Mapy.cz (Czech Rep.) #Windy (Czech Rep.) #Ventusky (Czech Rep.) #Meteoblue (Germany) #aminus3 (France) Feel free to expand 😎 #BoycottUSA
@adam_wysokinski This is great! Thanks for sharing.
Paul@Tutanota https://www.qwant.com is a terrific search engine.
@pauld We have featured them in our article ;)
Salem🏳️⚧️🫀🇵🇸@Tutanota do you think you will make it possible to change our main mail address on our account? if so, when? 😭 i made a wrong manipulation and i'm stuck now :(
John🥛@Tutanota Mastodon, Qobuz
RinzlerHey @Tutanota why not Nostr.
For me Nostr is way better then Mastodon and gets better everyday.
You said Mastodon is nonprofit and not under pressure from stakeholders.
But they can get under pressure of governments pretty easily. Just look at Apple and the UK. Even if Apple wouldn´t be a profit company they still would get pressure.
Nostr is a open-source decental protocol.
The is no company and no ceo behind ist. So it can´t get any pressure.
Mastodon is good, but Nostr is even better!
@Pug139 Thanks for sharing this. We will remember this for next time :)
@Tutanota thanks for your answer. It would be awesome if you could take a closer look on this, because you´re the privacy pros :)
Don´t get me wrong, everything you said about Mastodon is absolutly right.
But for me Mastodon is the second best "social Media".
I mean, i really like Proton, but they´re the second best after Tuta, so for me you´re the Nostr of Mails and Proton is Mastodon 😊
@Tutanota hey, i found out you didn´t.
I also told you yesterday.
In your newest post about a better instagram alternative you talk about Pixelfed as insta alternative and also about Mastodon and even Bluesky as Meta alternative. But still no word about Nostr. If a great company like you would see that Nostr is even better then Mastodon more people will use it and can move to the real feature of the internet. So please have a look at it
I also told you yesterday.
In your newest post about a better instagram alternative you talk about Pixelfed as insta alternative and also about Mastodon and even Bluesky as Meta alternative. But still no word about Nostr. If a great company like you would see that Nostr is even better then Mastodon more people will use it and can move to the real feature of the internet. So please have a look at it
Total Sonic Media@Tutanota - thank you for noting Mastodon makes an excellent replacement for US based corporate micro-blogging platforms like X and Threads. In terms of replacing the long form and private group targeted posting that Meta's Facebook provides, I'd note Diaspora as a more "apples to apples" alternative, and that the most popular instance servers (aka "pods") for it are all currently located in the EU. https://diasporafoundation.org/
@TotalSonic Thanks for sharing this suggestion. We will look into it.
NewDay@Tutanota please do not use the prestigious EU flag to promote products that are based on anti EU countries.