Der gemeinnützige Suchmaschinenanbieter “Ecosia“ aus Deutschland hat einen eigenen Suchindex entwickelt. Klingt für mich nach einer guten Nachricht, da ein Schritt hin zu digitaler Unabhängigkeit. „Wenn Trump sagen würde, den Europäern geben wir jetzt mal […] [Original post on freiburg.social]

J’ai une question, j’espère obtenir une réponse. Je fais tout pour que des entreprises 🇺🇸 ne prélèvent par leur commission sur mes transactions en ligne. J’opte donc systématiquement pour le prélèvement (quand c’est disponible) ou bien la CB (assez dispo). J’ai réduit les paiements faits par […]

One of the best things to witness is seeing someone forget about their Windows partition. :) Every success story shows that Fedora, and Linux in general, is continuing to push the desktop in the right direction - not only as an alternative to the mainstream options, but to what the desktop […]

My music adoring boyfriend is leaving #spotify after relying on it most of his life. He is leaning towards #tidal (in part because Qobuz is not available in his region).* Anyone have tips on Tidal? *I myself entered my address for a Qobuz trial & never heard back. Same thing happened to me with […]

I wish Qobuz had these personalization features when I was trying it months ago. Oh well, I've moved on to self-hosting my music collection anyway. I'm glad to see they've added these desires though. Makes it a much more useful service.

#ente : Indian team, European servers, but American headquarters 💔 In Delaware, where many companies choose to incorporate because of its tax system and its law. So it’s an American company and I’ve just cancelled my monthly subscription. I will test @pixelunion (based on #Immich) and @zeitkapsl […]

Pues estoy pensando en abandonar las aulas virtuales y llevarme este curso todo el trabajo del alumnado a local y utilizar filen para sincronizar archivos. Tiene mensajería y notas (con posibilidad de markdown) integradas en una app muy minimalista multiplataforma. Cifrado zero knowledge […]

Germany and France want to make Arte a continental television channel https://www.brusselstimes.com/1622270/germany-and-france-want-to-make-arte-a-continental-television-channel

Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media by Sebastian Vogelsang https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-can-build-own-social-media-on-at-protocol-by-sebastian-vogelsang-2025-07 #europeanalternatives #buyfromeu #buyeuropean #socialmedia

Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now. Be. Kind. To. Them. They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're […]

Hello tout le monde Auj, une amie a reçu son Fairphone 5 avec #eos dessus dans une démarche #degafamisation. Mais après avoir allumé son tel, elle est tombée sur une App Lounge vide de toute appli. Et peu importe sa recherche, ça disait ça (voir photo). Elle […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ich hab gerade an Mastodon gespendet. Spendet auch! https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate #supportmastodon

I recently talked with a guy who builds software for small & medium sized German insurance firms and he says almost all of their clients are working on removing US services from their tech stack due to perceiving them as highly risky. This includes cloud services, office tools, AI tools, etc. So […]

Finally a response from @EUCommission Vice-President #Virkkunen on the American attacks against #democracy in Europe (unfortunately on #LinkedIn): "The #DSA and #DMA are our sovereign legislations - Non-discriminatory, applying to all online platforms in the […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

1/ Got some new reading material about digital sovereignty. It's a really nice topic / hobby to spend time with: doing IT stuff for my own, playing around with RaspberryPIs and VPCs - and maybe(!) increasing some data protection. Someone once told me that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"Ignore the noise. This is the real Europe. Welcome to Europe. Birthplace of industry. Home of frontier tech." Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_tWbrvd3E0 Description: " “AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Europeans seek 'digital sovereignty' as US tech firms embrace Trump Here are some stats from the article: "Use in Europe of Swiss-based ProtonMail rose 11.7% year-on-year to March compared to a year ago, according to Similarweb, while use of Alphabet's Gmail, which has some 70% of the global […]

"Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net." https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/ "#Germany has stepped up to this challenge. On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine (#ZBMED), announced they were […]

Who is Anton Vincent Fredrik Palfi Osika? 🇸🇪 Short excerpts: "Anton Vincent Fredrik Palfi Osika, born on August 10, 1990, is a Swedish AI entrepreneur with a profound impact on the tech industry. His journey into the world of technology began early, driven by a childhood fascination with how […]

The Qwant search engine buys its French competitor Lilo 🇫🇷 https://www.lecho.be/entreprises/tech-science/le-moteur-de-recherche-qwant-rachete-son-concurrent-francais-lilo/10607272.html #buyeuropean #europeanalternatives #qwant #lilo #searchengine

Brand awareness of non-US-based cloud service providers is low, so let’s make finding local vendors easier. I started the https://www.eucloud.tech/ wiki years ago when I was CTO of a Svenska e-bike manufacturer and needed to find EU-based cloud service providers. #ngiforum25

🇬🇧 Stop #dataretention 2.0! ⚠️ The EU is planning radical mass surveillance. Your voice matters: 📣 Participate in the EU consultation by Sep 12. Defend your fundamental rights in 5 mins with EDRi's cheatsheet: 🛡️ […]

Does Europe's payments strategy add up? "EU residents have an impressive range of ways to pay for goods and services at home – including with cash, cards, smartphones, direct debits, bank transfers and instant payment apps. Yet the EU institutions have spent years fretting that most of these […]

In Munich, early signs of a European hyperscaler revolt "Under the Trump administration, US tech dominance is rattling public and private sector organisations across Europe. Digital sovereignty initiatives are gaining momentum as a result" […]

Due to your recommendations, I will be replacing @organicmaps with @CoMaps . Thank you to everyone who replied and shared info about the problems at Organic Maps! https://masto.pt/@diraquel/115016048668142335 @openstreetmap @jra @lps @tuga @rasumi #degoogling #fosstodon #europeanalternatives […]

Yeah we are! “Canada is leading the U.K. and France in boycotting American goods due to Trump’s tariffs” #elbowsup #boycottusa https://theconversation.com/canada-is-leading-the-u-k-and-france-in-boycotting-american-goods-due-to-trumps-tariffs-263395

Attendez, #deezer propose toujours d'envoyer ses propres MP3, même après toutes ces années ??? Je pensais que cette fonctionnalité n'était qu'un reliquat de feu Blogmusik pour palier au manque de catalogue des débuts et qu'elle avait été depuis abandonnée !

Started using @organicmaps and @openstreetmap . Tips are welcomed. ☺️ #degoogling #fosstodon #europeanalternatives

Mistral AI 🇫🇷 et le Luxembourg 🇱🇺 concluent un partenariat stratégique "Ce partenariat est une étape cruciale dans notre stratégie pour faire du Luxembourg un leader mondial dans l'économie de la souveraineté des données. Une intelligence artificielle à […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Mistral AI 🇫🇷 et le Luxembourg 🇱🇺 concluent un partenariat stratégique "Ce partenariat est une étape cruciale dans notre stratégie pour faire du Luxembourg un leader mondial dans l'économie de la souveraineté des données. Une intelligence artificielle à l'européenne, avec une touche […]

Ohhh. I missed this so far. I think this makes sense: browsers are one of *the* most fundamental digital public goods at this point. (Right after a mobile OS.) I'd have preferred if they had picked #firefox or #Verso, but hey, poking #google gets my vote too 🙂 (Is #ecosia the best host? […]

Ecosia 🇩🇪 has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome 🇺🇸 https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/ecosia-has-offered-to-take-stewardship-of-chrome-and-its-not-a-bad-idea/

More than 10 European startups became unicorns this year https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/more-than-10-european-startups-became-unicorns-this-year/

It looks like Ecosia 🇩🇪 has activated their Mastodon profile. They also have the Mastodon icon on the main page of their website. (although the icon does not appear on other pages yet, such as the blog) With 500,000 followers on Instagram, it'll be […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Viral news in the Netherlands: tagging @metaAI in a WhatsApp group DISABLES end-to-end encryption. I.e. Meta AI can then read the whole history of a group conversation! #SwitchToSignal #DeleteWhatsApp #DeleteWhatsAppInstallSignal Article in Dutch […] [Original post on mastodon.pirateparty.be]

It looks like Ecosia 🇩🇪 has activated their Mastodon profile. They also have the Mastodon icon on the main page of their website. (although the icon does not appear on other pages yet, such as the blog) With 500,000 followers on Instagram, it'll be […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

#European search index is live now! 🙌 Staan¹ (Search Trusted API Access Network) is a joint venture between @ecosia and @Qwant: > We’ve started delivering search results from our new European-based search index to #ecosia users! This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair Internet we […]

Mehr Interaktion & #Reichweite im #Fediverse als auf #X! Wir haben dazu ein anschauliches Beispiel: Die @maxplanckgesellschaft hat mit ihrem Post zum Jahrbuch 2024 auf #Mastodon eine 21-fache Interaktionsrate im Vergleich zu #X erreicht. ➡️ […] [Original post on berlin.social]

Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters […]

Here's a thread to document my gradual exiting of anti-democratic tech, sometimes staying there, but inactively, and in other cases by eliminating my profile and data fully and leaving altogether. As I'm part of many networks (like you?), this is generally not something I can do in one day and […]

Le Netflix français, l'histoire d'un naufrage : SALTO (French Netflix, a story of failure: SALTO) Interesting video explaining the reasons why the French Netflix, Salto, failed. Salto, a French subscription streaming service, was launched in 2020 as a joint venture between France Télévisions […]

I left my email provider for providing a chatbot in my mailbox to another email provider who just added a chatbot in their mailbox.... Pffft... any recommendations? Should i just give up and self-host my email too?

Coca Cola just started a "made in Germany" campaign on the German market. Now say of that company what you will, but they do their market research. Which means they understand just how well and truly long-term fucked the image of America in the world is.

#askfedi (where our tax consultant followers at?) We are looking for a German tax consultant (Steuerberater) that is able to provide a one-off consultation related to how to invoice correctly and deal with taxes for some small amount of one-off money (<1000€) related to our legal status (fiscal […]

Help us :fsfe: to connect with representatives! Developed by the FSFE, MP Explore is a #freesoftware tool to help us reaching out to representatives in Parliaments across Europe. 🔥 We need your help! Contribute by adding your local, regional, and national parliament! […]

ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence. "The model will be fully open […]

Reuters reports on our Eurosky initiative whose goal it is to establish a full, legally compliant #ATProto stack in Europe. But not only that - we’re working on a commons moderation service that can act as an incubator for smaller ATProto devs.

Das Projekt Eurosky will eine europäische Infrastruktur schaffen, auf der Social-Media-Startups aufbauen können. Kernstück ist ein gemeinnütziger, DSA-konformer Moderationsservice. Darüber schreibe ich im Bluesky-Briefing. 1/3

Was die kleine Suchmaschine #ecosia neben dem plakativen Pflanzen von Bäumen noch alles tut, um die Welt zu retten… https://youtu.be/7JZEWzezOrE?si=tcZJtD7jzjtdV4bc Tolle Arbeit, grandiose Grundeinstellung für ein Tech-Unternehmen! Da geht einem echt das Herz auf 🫶🏻

I’m looking for anyone in my circles who: • is a front-end web developer • has some design sense • understands the allure of buying a Linux computer • is open to paid work A Linux computer company reached out asking if I was available for paid work on their website and while I would love to […]