> switching.software is a grassroots website, that is trying to let people know about ethical and easy-to-use alternatives to well-known websites, apps and other software. It is specifically aimed at a non-technical audience.
[0] https://switching.software/
EDIT: After a deeper look, I found some issues, like there are a lot of seemingly duplicate categories, (AWS [1] and Amazon Web Services [2]), but with different sets of results, which could be solved with normalisation, but then there are many "alternatives" shown that aren't EU-based, but OSS, like Gatsby [3] or NocoDB [4] and I'm not sure what to think. I think that's acceptable, but for OSS there are other lists I'd look into instead of a website/listing like this.
[1]: https://euro-stack.com/alternatives/aws
[2]: https://euro-stack.com/alternatives/amazon-web-services-aws
Europe is working towards being independent or at least not so heavy dependent, it's a good thing, but in the long term this idea of isolation for everyone isn't great.
Yes, but only because the trust was broken by the US. For so long the EU was very happy to work with the US with trade, we both benefited.
But by treating Greenland...
I see a real shift in the political environment from the EU [1]
1. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-is-crossroads-toward...
Btw: if you are interested in this, note that it often isn’t clear cut where a company is from.
For example: https://european-alternatives.eu/product/zitadel bills itself as a swiss company, and it might technically be one, but it looks very much like a general SF startup to me (business address in sf, all investors are US based)
Zitadel started in Switzerland under the name CAOS AG and has still a lot of its operations in Europe. For our US go to market strategy we incorporated Zitadel Inc. which operates out of SF where I also tend to be.
Happy to share more if interested
And I think this speaks to my point that it isn’t a simple yes/no question :)
The matter is definitely more complex than yes and no... my general stand has been that jurisdiction matters a lot when you store and process data from customers, like many cloud services do. iIt matters less if you can take a software and self-host it.
[1]: https://github.com/lissy93/awesome-privacy
[2]: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
[1] https://www.scaleway.com/en/glacier-cold-storage/ [2] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
Scaleway Glacier... not so much.
Nothing unusual here.
It is going through GDPR review, then permitting, and then a few other country-specific reviews. Check back in 6-11 years.
Its similar but slightly less friendly and doesn't require a tip