If you could pick one non-U.S. tech, product, or service to switch to, what would you recommend, and why? Open-source and self-hosting options welcome!
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@zackwhittaker Proton app suite is great and replaces a lot of Google app functions (drive, mail, calendar, password locker + VPN as the cherry on top) but with an inbuilt privacy focus and hosting in Europe
Fastmail! Great open source developers, worker-owned, and it works really, really well!
@MichaelTBacon @zackwhittaker “worker-owned co-op”? Last time I’ve heard @fastmail laid off a large number of union members
via @fastmailunited
@sumek @zackwhittaker @fastmailunited @fastmail
Both are true. And the Fastmail Union has never called for a boycott or asked people to choose other options. That dispute became public because they were a unionized workplace in the first place. It helps the union to use Fastmail while pressuring management to agree to good terms.
Annoys the crap out of me when people hear "labor dispute with union" and automatically assume a boycott is needed. LISTEN TO THE UNION.
@MichaelTBacon @sumek @zackwhittaker @fastmailunited @fastmail just to be clear it is worker owned, not a co-op, as in it is owned by people who work at the company, not by everyone who works there
@pixls @sumek @zackwhittaker @fastmailunited @fastmail Thank you, will correct.
Yeah they are great service, keep in mind however their servers are hosted in the US.
A very real concern and I read "non-US tech" and thought "non-US techbro." For those of us in the US it doesn't make much difference in terms of threat model but for those outside it absolutely does.
So that disqualifies it somewhat, certainly.
Fairphone (E/os version)
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Proton Mail/Drive
@zackwhittaker Signal because it 
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