cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23812665
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35236593
I feel like a version of this guide gets reposted weekly, but it’s always out of date.
u/theFallenWalnut over on that other site updates these regularly.
They also now link to [email protected] but I don’t see anything posted there. Maybe a better place to start reposting these
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I love how the alternative to American chatting apps is yet another centralized American chatting app running on a plethora of American services from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare etc. And based on phone numbers where they can easily cut down comms for Europeans at any given time the US gives the orders
🤡🤡🤡
Also, your phone can get located and your phone calls can be intercepted only by knowing your phone number (look up ss7 attack)
No threema? Matrix?
Tidal is owned by Block Inc, listed in the US, founded and run by Jack Dorsey, formerly of Twitter.
Is there a specific reason why Spotify is not suggested as an alternative to YouTube Music and Apple Music?
To my knowledge they are a Swedish company.Donated 150k $ to Trump: https://swedenherald.com/article/this-is-how-much-spotify-donated-to-trumps-inauguration
I imagine the us political environment enforces such behavior to maintain a market position in the future.
I don’t see it as a political statement but rather as a symptom of the political environment.
In EU you don’t need to bribe politicians to do business
That is fair, I was not aware of that
Spotify is cancer
Yeah but still I rather use a company like spotify than companies from a fascist country. And spotify replaced youtube for me which I lately mainly used to watch veritasium which is now also available on spotify (even without the in-video ads).
Wait… Since when does Spotify host video content?
I had the same reaction. But apparently it does. I guess because they realized there is no real alternative to youtube.
Wasn’t proton owner actively and very publicly supporting US republicans?
They use affiliate marketing: https://european-alternatives.eu/privacy-policy
https://buy-european.net/en does not and is managed by @[email protected]
Libby doesn’t seem to be a thing outside of NA, I just can’t find any libraries that support it
Working it Austria at least, but of course more limited supply. Would love to find a good Audio Book Service which is not Audible. :(
Librivox? Admittedly, only public domain books. https://librivox.org/
Librivox is pretty nice, although quality varies a lot. But I’m very grateful it exists.
