tinosaurier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)www.zeitgeistofbytes.comexternal-linkmessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up1321cross-posted to: buyfromeu@feddit.orgbuyeuropean@feddit.uk
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minus-squareBogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoAccording 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”?
minus-squareparzival@lemmy.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoI guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market
minus-squareBogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoMy 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
minus-squareRachellinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThey are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org
minus-squareparzival@lemmy.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months agoThey’re based in Switzerland, but def still big tech
… Proton is still big tech
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”?
I guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market
My strategy about that is to avoid putting all my eggs on the same basket :
They are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org
They’re based in Switzerland, but def still big tech