Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media
by Sebastian Vogelsang

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#EuropeanAlternatives #BuyFromEU #BuyEuropean #SocialMedia

Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media

Sebastian Vogelsang thinks policymakers are overlooking the potential for developing platforms on decentralized, open protocols.

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Unfortunate discussion now about how much #BuyEuropean should be considered, and in which surprisingly the European Parliament advisor Lukasz Klejnowski makes the important point that it can't be about the EU being fully autonomous.

Tech is global, the internet is global, and that's a good thing. And we can support and buy ethical tech globally as well.

#DigitalSovereignty #NGIForum25

Good tutorial in French explaining the features and benefits of Hetzner's Storage Share service, a cloud storage solution that integrates with Nextcloud, a popular open-source file management platform.

From just €4.29 per month, you can get your own Nextcloud instance as an alternative to Google, Microsoft, etc. It comes with 1 TB of storage, unlimited users and is hosted in Europe.

It's not free, but neither are the US competitors — it's actually cheaper than Google One (10€) or Microsoft 365 (13€).

You don't need any IT skills to install it; just create an account, pay and start using it. 🙂

You can do it only for yourself or offer storage to family, friends and your community too.

Article: next.ink/4687/on-a-teste-stora…

Hetzner Storage Share website: hetzner.com/storage/storage-sh…

#nextcloud #hetzner #cloud #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean

On a testé Storage Share, l'instance NextCloud d'Hetzner à prix serré - Next

Hetzner a révisé récemment les tarifs de ses services de stockage en ligne. Nous nous sommes penchés sur Storage Share qui, en plus d’un prix agressif, fournit une instance NextCloud.

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#BuyEurope and Made in China - how do they go together?

You can find the answer in our new blog post:
shift.eco/en/german-smartphone…

At a time when national interests often take precedence over common solutions and dialog is replaced by power games, many of us feel a strong need:
➡️ For stability.
➡️ For reliability.
➡️ For responsibility - also regionally.

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #EUTech #BuyFromEU #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #SupportEurope #unplugTrump

Are you looking to replace Google Maps and choose European?

Gladly, we have a lot of alternatives!

#GoEuropean #BuyFromEU #BuyEuropean #Degoogle #GoogleMaps #HereWeGo #Trump

Hetzner 🇩🇪, a leading Germany's cloud providers, has joined the Mastodon family - and created their very own instance! 🥳

There's a giveaway for those who are already customers. Check out their profile to see it: @hetzner

Giveaway terms: hetzner.com/legal/giveaway

#BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU #hetzner

The best way to install them is through the F-Droid store, which is a catalogue of FOSS software for Android. It's installable by downloading the .apk file linked on the front page of the F-Droid projec'ts website. The mentioned apps from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology can then be found by searching for "SECUSO", which is the name of the research project behind them all.

Alternatively, you can also get them through the Google Play Store under this link or again by searching for "SECUSO".

In particular, I recommend getting the QR code reader, because many of the free-to-use scanners route everything you scan through their servers, so they're obviously collecting your data on their servers, wherever these may be located.

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Major European news sites start talking about the trend to #deGoogle and to #BuyEuropean 💪

Thanks, Markus Böhm and Dennis Hoogeveen, for the mentions. ❤️

Read the full articles:

👉 spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpoliti…

👉 nos.nl/artikel/2562279-klanten…