“Bye bye bye.” It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.
    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      19 days ago

      According to a wikipedia search that I could cross reference more, Proton AG is 500 employees and Alphabet is 190k (380 times Proton).

      What is your definition of big tech? I was only including huge monopolistic monoliths, are they “huge tech”?

      • parzival@lemmy.orgEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        I guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market

        • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          15 days ago

          My strategy about that is to avoid putting all my eggs on the same basket :

          • Not using proton pass while bitwarden works like a charm
          • Sticking to a custom domain for my mail address to ease a future migration
    • RachelEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      They are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org