A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
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pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 189d
Wait until they find out about the programming team GitHub - that group has developed an astounding amount of projects.
It's a good article to introduce non-tech people to alternatives, error(s?) aside.
XLE@piefed.social · 19 pts · 189d
This is a funny mistake to make, but after looking around on their website, I have genuinely no idea what group to attribute the project to. There's no name in the privacy disclaimer. You can attribute it to the people that developed it, but that seems almost tautological... And perhaps, if they're privacy enthusiasts too, they'd rather not be named and attributed to a location.
If I wasn't aware of GitHub let alone its alternatives, I'd assume Codeberg was the group responsible for the project too. It's mentioned on every page footer, after all
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 189d
Yeah, it's really just indicative of the author being unfamiliar with open source projects and their general structure - which is fine.
LibreWolf (as far as I can see) has a fairly standard OSS team structure - project lead/admin, several major contributing coders, a few notable prior contributors, and of course dozens of contributors of small pull requests. They do explain on their homepage that they're "largely a community-driven project", so if I was a journo I'd just refer to them as the 'LibreWolf team'.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 189d
The hacker known as pacman
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 189d
Even if the rightoids win in Europe simply reducing the megacorp monopolies by just distributing the share is a great thing
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 189d
Interesting article, but no mention of WhatsApp.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 189d
Anyone has recommendations of an EU cloud for sharing data (pro)?
Thanks everyone, I'll check them all out! It's for a friends company, they need something like dropbox/wetransfer.
rbn@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 189d
Infomaniak (Swiss) is really nice from a usability perspective and also really affordable. With KSuite they also offer an inbuilt office suite.
Mylemmypt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d
Keep away from infomaniak! Easy to register and cheap, all too perfect. But then your account is locked, cannot recover it by phone or alternate email, and they ask for a copy of your identity card, thing that is not needed to sigup! I just wonder, what the hell will they do with it? How can they validate it? Its not a good thing believe me. Someone has your data and you are blackmailed in order to recover access. Well I just send them a fake ID and guess what? 5 minutes later I have access to my account just to retrieve all data and never look back! They need the ID for their customer safety!!! Lol
Libb@piefed.social · 5 pts · 189d
Depends what you mean by data sharing and what exactly you expect to get out of it (E2EE?) but in most case I would also suggest Infomaniak Ksuite. It's really good and not expensive.
jdr8@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
What you mean sharing data? Like a database? Or files?
I use Hetzner, from Germany. They are good and relatively affordable. But they have increased the prices recently.
You also have Scaleway, from France, also good.
It depends what you want to achieve.
jabjoe@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 189d
Nextcloud?