@Tutanota

I use Linux phone - FLX1 from FuriLabs - as my main cell phone, I self host few services on an old laptop with Debian server installed. I use alternative services to big tech as much as possible.

@Tutanota I cannot answer because I don't know what digital sovereignty means. Being independent from big tech, no matter which country. Being independent from US. Being everything self-hosted, I don't know.
"Sovereignty is generally defined as supreme, independent control and lawmaking authority over a territory. It is expressed through the power to rule and make law. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within a state as well as external autonomy, which refers to the ability of a state to act independently in international affairs."
If this is the case and I transfer it to my digital life, it means I own all my data and I am the only one who can control it. I have full autonomy over my own network data etc. That means it can never be achieved because I will never own voda or a telekom.

@Tutanota i went from paying for a VPN to hosting my own VPN offsite. It's actually cheaper than you think and you get a whole lot more control!

@Tutanota please do not use this nationalistic "sovereignty" language, I appreciate how you have aimed it at the individual here, but then you are appeasing the euro-nationalists with the flags and such.
Please, this risks just participating in another petty skirmish between abstract so called governments.
Please keep it to the individual level without flags.
Thank you

@Tutanota I started using more decentralized tools and now I’m self-hosting services that I need most. I finally managed to abandon Big Tech after so long! Own your data ✊

@Tutanota I'm slowly becoming digitally sovereign by ditching for-profit companies like Tuta and self-hosting what I can and relying on friends for the rest

@Tutanota switched to graphene OS on android, from Windows to Ubuntu on PC, switched to Tuta from gmail, to OrganicMaps and TomTom from google, switched from Office to LibreOffice, using Ecosia for 2 years now and planning to get the Fairphone for my next phone with e/OS. For password manager I switched to KeepassXC

@Tutanota I’ve been switching over the last couple of months. Using Tuta for anything I’m not self-hosting, but I’ve gone further and removed US software in favour of European alternatives. I self host my own mastodon instance and use Qwant as a search engine.

@Tutanota can't wait to Tuta Drive to come out

@Tutanota How does this work with Proxystore vouchers? They have vouchers for 19.50, 36, and 104 Euros while your Legend tier is currently 48 Euros a year. Thanks.

@Tutanota Since March, I’ve been trying to switch to open-source software. It started with the Google search engine, then email, and so on. I hope that by the end of this year or early 2027, I’ll have managed to cut myself off from Google completely. I try to choose software that is based in Europe or has servers in Europe.

@Tutanota ich verwende Firefox, Tuta und Mailbox.org, habe meine verschlüsselte Cloud bei Proton und ein eigenes NAS. Meine Accounts bei Meta (Facebook, Instagram und WhatsApp) habe ich gelöscht und nutze dafür Threema, Pixelfed und Mastodon und einen eigenen Matrix-Server. Meine Suchmaschine ist Ecosia und PayPal ersetze ich öfter durch Wero. Heute kommt ein refurbished ThinkPad und dann geht’s mit Linux weiter 😉

@Tutanota Working offline as much as possible and relying on trusted open-source options where it's not possible, e.g. Tuta for email 🦾

@Tutanota
building my own kube cluster to self-host things that I need/want like websites and some internet services. for stuff that's not worth the hassle I use services like Tuta.

@Tutanota Selhosting most services I use