If you do not want to use software from a US tech industry that supports Donald Trump, this is the website you have been looking for:
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@randahl I choose to self host most things, because I have the skill to do so. I also share what I host with my friends and family who don't have those same skills. So they can break free from big tech along with me.
I have some family that are stuck in their ways and would rather think of me as the crazy person, but that's their loss. Even when presented with documented court cases and self admit guilt by U.S.A. big tech for different things, they would still rather support them and call me paranoid. So I gave up with them.
But as for those that listen and show interest, I happily give them access to the stuff I host such as Immich, nextcloud, FreshRSS, Linkwarden and jellyfin.
Rather than say to use a country specific platform, I aim to push open-source, community developed and decentralized as much as possible.
And it doesn't hurt to buy a coffee for the folks who make those things as well. They work way harder than the big tech companies do, often trying to keep up with similar offered features, and I benifit way more from them, in terms of privacy and trust, so I always try to help out when I can. 🙂
@randahl warning this website host many LIAR, who actually use US tech industry and are US front end.
Vivaldi for instance, not a single one of their access point is in EU
Every single one is in US
Via cloudflare, Github, etc.
@randahl You could also use @alternativeto and select the applicable option to filter by place of origin
@randahl As cool as this does sound, I'm American and it would feel... inauthentic to *only* use European alternatives.
@randahl In Germany, there is also Digital Independence Day, an initiative to help others regaining control over their digital infrastructure https://di.day/
It is partially relying on European Alternatives, but also has lots of other hints
@randahl Nope. We don't need a eurocentric Internet.
@randahl cool info. Alternatives are plentyfull.
@randahl Yeah! This page is one of the reasons why I am trying Mastodon! Also I switched years ago to mapy.com from Google Maps and Waze. Much more detailed maps, awesome worldwide offline maps and tourist maps, actual traffic and traffic warnings ala Waze. Recommend! Also I switched to @ecosia and their really good AI search.
@randahl There's another good one at https://euroalternative.co/
@randahl Funny that this web site, european alternatives, has a LinkedIn site
@randahl 💞 keep us informed in USA.
Like the switch away from fossil fuels, the EU needs to accelerate this change away from US tech if it is to retain its sovereignty.
https://archive.is/scS7L
https://www.ft.com/content/8264122b-cb6b-4af5-85b8-3789c3ae3a78
https://archive.is/9UbL9
https://www.ft.com/content/869aae15-4c37-48a6-9a8b-d80b5d40db6a
American tech is gearing up for some nasty surprises.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/media/tiktok-trump-ice-epstein-censorship-tech-issues
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/
Ditto for their financial & trade systems.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-retail-traders-buy-silver-etfs-faster-than-tech-favorites-vanda-research-says-2026-01-27/
@Npars01 there! That is a video I need to make. Thank you.
@randahl i disagree with ecosia listed there.
>The search results of the search engine come from either Bing or Google. Which index is used depends on the users' preference, the location and the device type.
@randahl Matrix is not there. Ut would be a good alternative to Messenger and FB groups...
Are you kidding that you don’t know about Matrix?
@FransVeldman never heard of it. Not once. And I am a user of quite many platforms.
@randahl @FransVeldman Try Element X and FluffyChat on your mobile for a start...
I think we should stop looking for geographic/political bound services. The internet was designed to be used without that.
We have email servers all over the world, and various email clients that can make use of it. There is no owner of the email service, no country the host of the email service, no one who has power over the email service. Email is nor “American” nor “European”.
The danger we are now facing is that we will get “European services”, owned by Europeans, yet again locking you in, this time in a European scheme. Europe is not the holy grail however, they have grifters, nationalists, ultra rights, Trump-wannabee’s too. We will just swap one problem for another.
The keyword here is decentralized. That is what we should be looking for. Not American, not European, but truly decentralized. Nobody in ultimate power, nobody who can make it politically lean to one side or the other, nobody who can pull the plug, or sell it to a billionaire. This is how the internet was intended, and how many of the initial services (email, name servers) were designed. This path was abandoned when big tech wanted to commercialize services, but it doesn’t have to be like this.
For most services, if not all, decentralized alternatives exists.
@FransVeldman the hard part is all the non-cloud software, because that is never "decentralized".
Also, in my work I am bound to a ton of American apps like Photoshop and Davinci Resolve which requires a significant skill level.
It has taken me three years just to learn Davinci Resolve — switching is not always just a choice, but a considerable investment.
``switching is not always just a choice, but a considerable investment''
But it will be worth it.
What do you mean with “non cloud software”? I host a lot of decentralized services which have nothing to do with a cloud. They just run on a VPS, which can be anywhere in the world. Currently, I have my services hosted in Iceland, because I like their privacy policies, but I can just plant them in any other country if I wish to.
Photoshop? Have you tried Gimp? Many professionals who abandoned Microsoft and have chosen for Linux claim that Gimp can do everything Photoshop can do, often even better.
@FransVeldman all I meant was, a regular old school installed app is not hosted. It comes from a company and is installed on your device, so obviously, there is no decentralized aspect of it.
But the learning is the main problem. I know quite many people who hate Apple, yet use their products because learning something new is a considerable investment.