THIS is what regreening looks like ✨

After planting over 25,000 native trees with our partner ITPA, a once-bare part of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has come back to life.

Keep searching with Ecosia to help more forests regrow 💚

#reforestation #climateaction #ecosia

THIS is what regreening looks like ✨

After planting over 25,000 native trees with our partner ITPA, a once-bare part of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has come back to life.

Keep searching with Ecosia to help more forests regrow 💚

#reforestation #climateaction #ecosia

Switch today, choose European

#BuyFromEU #Europe #Google #Ecosia

Switch today, choose European

#BuyFromEU #Europe #Google #Ecosia

@gnulinux

Was ist der Digital Independence Day?
Der #DiDay ist eine gemeinsame Initiative vieler Organisationen, Verbände und Institutionen, die von Save Social - Networks For Democracy in Hamburg koordiniert wird. Die Initiative wurde beim letzten Congress von Mark-Uwe Kling (der mit dem Känguru) und Linus Neumann (der vom CCC) angekündigt.
Aktuell wird der DI.DAY von 44 Organisationen unterstützt. Darunter findet man fast alle, die in der Freien Software Szene eine Rolle spielen, wie z. B.: dem CCC, Wikimedia, Mastodon, Ecosia, Nextcloud, der Open Search Foundation, Digitalcourage, dem SUMA e.V., der Digitalen Gesellschaft, Tuta und viele andere.

#Microsoft zu #LibreOffice
#PayPal zu #Wero / @Taler

#Chrome zu #Firefox
#Google zu #Ecosia /
Amazon zum Buchladen
Gmail zu unabhängiger E-Mail
X zu #Mastodon
#WhatsApp zu #Signal

HomeAssistant, Immich, AdGuard, Jellyfin
Ralf schlägt #BigTech-Cloud zu #Nextcloud vor …
… und der Elefant im Raum heisst: #Windows zu #Linux

@marcuwekling
@Tutanota

@davidgerard
I tend to use #ecosia which I believe uses #bing for its results.

Unfortunately this filters out direct links to the neocities site, although it does include the Wikipedia page. A bit disappointed as they generally seem to be dedicated to a good cause - planting trees

https://www.ecosia.org

@Tutanota After trying Kagi for a while I end up using #Ecosia and never looked back.

Groß angekündigt: 4000 Tonnen. Tatsächlich verteilt: rund 175 Tonnen – für mehr reicht das Budget nicht. Was als Lebensmittelrettung verkauft wird, ist vor allem ein PR-Coup für die Berliner Morgenpost, Ecosia und einen sächsischen Agrarbetrieb. Dabei sitzen auch Brandenburger Erzeuger auf vollen Lagern. https://taz.de/4000-Tonnen-geschenkte-Kartoffeln/!6146002/ #4000tonnen #berlin #ecosia

Groß angekündigt: 4000 Tonnen. Tatsächlich verteilt: rund 175 Tonnen – für mehr reicht das Budget nicht. Was als Lebensmittelrettung verkauft wird, ist vor allem ein PR-Coup für die Berliner Morgenpost, Ecosia und einen sächsischen Agrarbetrieb. Dabei sitzen auch Brandenburger Erzeuger auf vollen Lagern. https://taz.de/4000-Tonnen-geschenkte-Kartoffeln/!6146002/ #4000tonnen #berlin #ecosia

@ecosia

Out of curiosity, I analysed Ecosia's infrastructure (through IPs and ASNs) to find out whether it is #European or not.

I was surprised to find that it relies on #AWS S3 for financial data reports (stored .json data), #Amazon Cloudfront for the Ecosia.org search, Fastly for blog.ecosia.org, #Cloudflare for the Ecosia.org homepage, #Google Ads and probably others.

In July 2025, they posted on their blog that 'digital #sovereignty is just #oneclickaway', stating that Europe's digital backbone is dependent on the US and all the problems this entails, such as a lack of control.

They also said, 'We've always believed that where you search matters' and 'Digital #sovereignty is climate action too', despite the fact that they depend on Big Tech themselves and use almost no EU infrastructure in practice.

As Ecosia is a signatory to the #EuroStack initiative, why haven't you migrated your infrastructure to #European solutions?

It is worrying to know that, by switching to Ecosia, practically 100% of my traffic goes through non-EU companies. I would like to see more independence on your part.

'Building and using local infrastructure means reducing transatlantic data traffic, increasing energy efficiency, and cutting down on the carbon footprint of cloud computing. Plus, tech companies that are based here are more likely to be held accountable to EU environmental standards. It's a win-win.’ – Ecosia Blog https://blog.ecosia.org/digital-sovereignty-is-just-oneclickaway/

#eu #ecosia #eurostack #sovereignty #privacy #bigtech #sustainability

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@seven_708/115918033421946886

Fair shout from @steg I forgot to say what I replace all this with:

I forgot to mention as well that I replaced Edge browser (at work) with #vivaldi browser. Never looked back 🙃

- Amazon: this one is complicated, but I simply made a step back and realized that I am not supporting local businesses. I will now try to purchase local first, and if that is not possible, I will be looking for the stuff I want on the net via #ecosia (search engine, which I forgot to mention that I replaced google with), so that I purchase directly from small business (if possible)
- this one is simple, I revered curse and started purchasing blue rays again (movies), mp3 for music (no subscription)
- digital cloud and AWS where problematic, you get addicted to the ease of clouds: replacement’s: I de-centralized 1. #infomaniak_com (domain registrations) 2. #MythicalBeasts (cloud servers) from the UK 3. #BunnyVPN (this one is still in progress, but this will fully replace CloudFlare CDN)
- social media has been completely replaces with #mastodon
- MS Office on my private machines has been replaced with two packages: 1. #protonmail (email, calendar, and cloud drive) 2. #libreoffice for documents

This was not easy, but baby steps and we can get there!

Hope this helps whom ever wants to join the move #boycottusa

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@seven_708/115918033421946886

Fair shout from @steg I forgot to say what I replace all this with:

I forgot to mention as well that I replaced Edge browser (at work) with #vivaldi browser. Never looked back 🙃

- Amazon: this one is complicated, but I simply made a step back and realized that I am not supporting local businesses. I will now try to purchase local first, and if that is not possible, I will be looking for the stuff I want on the net via #ecosia (search engine, which I forgot to mention that I replaced google with), so that I purchase directly from small business (if possible)
- this one is simple, I revered curse and started purchasing blue rays again (movies), mp3 for music (no subscription)
- digital cloud and AWS where problematic, you get addicted to the ease of clouds: replacement’s: I de-centralized 1. #infomaniak_com (domain registrations) 2. #MythicalBeasts (cloud servers) from the UK 3. #BunnyVPN (this one is still in progress, but this will fully replace CloudFlare CDN)
- social media has been completely replaces with #mastodon
- MS Office on my private machines has been replaced with two packages: 1. #protonmail (email, calendar, and cloud drive) 2. #libreoffice for documents

This was not easy, but baby steps and we can get there!

Hope this helps whom ever wants to join the move #boycottusa

@catsalad I try out an add on against AI in Firefox, or exactly Fennec .
But not so sure if it's work.
Have some AI changes,
In #ecosia search page (screenshot )in upper right is still a link to AI/KI - search.
But it seems, that there are AI-generated search results and summaries throttled or blocked

@ecosia

Out of curiosity, I analysed Ecosia's infrastructure (through IPs and ASNs) to find out whether it is #European or not.

I was surprised to find that it relies on #AWS S3 for financial data reports (stored .json data), #Amazon Cloudfront for the Ecosia.org search, Fastly for blog.ecosia.org, #Cloudflare for the Ecosia.org homepage, #Google Ads and probably others.

In July 2025, they posted on their blog that 'digital #sovereignty is just #oneclickaway', stating that Europe's digital backbone is dependent on the US and all the problems this entails, such as a lack of control.

They also said, 'We've always believed that where you search matters' and 'Digital #sovereignty is climate action too', despite the fact that they depend on Big Tech themselves and use almost no EU infrastructure in practice.

As Ecosia is a signatory to the #EuroStack initiative, why haven't you migrated your infrastructure to #European solutions?

It is worrying to know that, by switching to Ecosia, practically 100% of my traffic goes through non-EU companies. I would like to see more independence on your part.

'Building and using local infrastructure means reducing transatlantic data traffic, increasing energy efficiency, and cutting down on the carbon footprint of cloud computing. Plus, tech companies that are based here are more likely to be held accountable to EU environmental standards. It's a win-win.’ – Ecosia Blog https://blog.ecosia.org/digital-sovereignty-is-just-oneclickaway/

#eu #ecosia #eurostack #sovereignty #privacy #bigtech #sustainability

To save data expense and server load: Do you think it would be useful to know the size of a website before loading it? I mean, in the search result page. It could promote a lighter web. Is there any firefox extension to know it in Android? @ecosia

#solarpunk #smallweb #slowweb #lightweb #ecosia #sustainability #firefox #android

To save data expense and server load: Do you think it would be useful to know the size of a website before loading it? I mean, in the search result page. It could promote a lighter web. Is there any firefox extension to know it in Android? @ecosia

#solarpunk #smallweb #slowweb #lightweb #ecosia #sustainability #firefox #android