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When Trump and his crime family comes for your data, American tech won't save you. They'll hand it over because they have no choice. European and Canadian alternatives aren't perfect, but at least they aren't under Trump's thumb.
Here's my post-Trump tech stack.
joanwestenberg.com/american-te…
How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech
The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts.Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Scary but true. I have moved all my activity to non-US operations; not perfect but a start.
American tech corporations are just greedy collaborators and appeasers to current fascist regime.
Not trust worthy.....they are major part of problem.
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in reply to maxsidman • • •@maxsidman Signal is a US-based non-profit organization. It’s operated by the Signal Foundation, which was founded in 2018 by Moxie Marlinspike (former CEO of Signal) and Brian Acton (co-founder of WhatsApp) based in Mountain View, California....I love Signal, and I use it but I don't know about including it just because...U.S.
There's some other options I haven't listed because I haven't tried or experienced. Threema for example. Will update as I go.
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Excellent initiative! Please consider @delta #DeltaChat for your Messenger category. Not only it's a user-friendly piece of innovation that I'm successfully recommending to WhatsApp users, it is also a warm and a smart and well connected open source project and community.
About Signal, same feelings. I opened this discussion a few days ago and got very interesting feedback: sonomu.club/@icaria36/11405272…
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Good write-up. Annoying trying to find alternatives as a Canadian because almost everything we use online has to be connected to or directly owned by US firms.
Really hope this ends up having a positive response and we can grow stronger ties with the rest of the world as well as grow what we can do as a country.
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Or, they'll hand it over because they're getting paid & their business is selling your data, or rather, selling YOU - which, let's be real, is far & away more of a problem than anyone forcing them to.
It's important that we identify these risks as features of surveillance capitalism, not bugs.
- but yeah, European & Canadian alternatives, please - @pluralistic has some suggestions: pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs…
Pluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Android apps is yet another big category.
If you're not into rooting or custom ROM, then the best option would be disabling all Google apps/services using app like @appmanager (via ADB) and use @fdroidorg app-store.
F-Droid has a very limited number of apps compared to the PlayStore, but if you only use one app-for-one usecase, then there are enough to choose from 😀
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •I wonder whether a similar effort exists to list decent European hosting providers. Important, that don't rely on American server infrastructure (AWS and equivalents) under the surface.
#hosting
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Do you have any sources for Todoist beeing "not hosted in US".
They say the data is hosted on AWS and Doist Inc. seems to be an American company.
todoist.com/de/security
I would really love to use the app, but it seems to be US based (even with a remote TEam from around the world)
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •I wouldn't trust #Proton. Just use a normal old school mail server (like the one provided by your ISP or Yahoo/whatever) and use Kmail/IceDove/Thunderbird with PGP. If you want to remain anonymous, use VPN and/or Tor on top of that. Or rather, use any mail server that is 100% compatible with @delta.
For notes and productivity, use #Emacs or #Vim plus Git for backup. Encrypt all files before commit or use a safe server with disk encryption for your repo. Emacs 30 runs on Android.
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •sad to see no mentions of #DeltaChat or #ArcaneChat
With them you can have a messenger, encrypted email and at the same time e2e encrypted notes synchronized across all your devices, 2FA PIN numbers app, collaborative editor and many other mini-apps all without depending on a central server
Carlos Cámara
in reply to adb • • •@adbenitez I recently discovered #deltachat and I'm quite happy despite the fact I don't know anyone using it.
I didn't know about collaborative editor and 2FA, can you tell me how to use it? Also, I'm not sure on how the mini apps work or how to properly use them
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in reply to Carlos Cámara • • •@ccamara you can find the collaborative editor in the attachment button in the chat, in the mini-apps list you can also find the "2FA authenticator" app, it is called TOTP, send it in your "Saved Messages" chat, then you can also add a shortcut to it in your home screen and open it directly later as a native phone app, then any token you add to the app will be synchronized in all your devices so you can access your 2FA codes easily from all your devices without fear of losing them!
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Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Great list!
I’m moving my file hosting & backup to a local Finnish Upcloud, but here are some great tips for productivity!
Thank you ☺️👌
Stephan Hansen-Oest
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Regarding Proton…maybe you want to do some research of cases where Proton disclosed user data to US authorities.
I’m not sure that your choices are really "Trump-Proof“.
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Many people feel that tech companies, and the US government, are not transparent enough about how they use data, and how their algorithms function.
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Is Doist a European company? I couldn't find anything at a glance, and their privacy page mentions that Doist Inc. is a company from California, while warning people that their data is processed by US employees and stored on US servers.
doist.com/privacy#5-where-we-s…
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While I'm in the US, I understand those costs and thus ensure that all my VPS instances also have full-disk encryption enabled (even if it's a pain when updates require a reboot, meaning I need to enter the FDE password via the web-console)
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Unknown parent • • •It's impressive how much a green flag being on masto/fedi is.
It shows that as a company, you give a sh*it!
I also relatively easily convinced the company that does our pharmacy website (and does like hundreds of other pharmacy websites) to switch to @plausible
It just makes sense
Jouni OH3CUF
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •LibreWolf lies. Their first promise is "No telemetry" but I haven't seen any app making so many calls back to home like LibreWolf does. I think I counted 10 network connections just opening the app after installation. And some of them were back to Mozilla. That is absolutely not cool.
So big no-no from me. Still continuing with Firefox and I have blocked Mozilla IPs
Also I disagree Matrix would be actually replacement for WhatsApp. Good luck getting all non-geek normal people there 😛
Machiel van der Bijl
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •I use mailbox.org for mail, storage, etc. I was not aware of it when I chose it for their secure email, but their office apps also work nice. (No stocks or anything, just a happy user 😉)
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •A look at search engines with their own indexes
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