Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
  • Alas Poor ErinaceusOPEnglish
    4•10 days ago

    Possibly a dumb question, but what exactly constitutes a “US-based digital service?” For example, does that mean everything on github is off limits? I wouldn’t think so (and actually I’m kind of surprised that so many projects stayed on github after it was bought by Microsoft). Me being me, I’ve started going through my various account entries on KeePass, and changing the favicon of the site/service with the flag of the country it’s based in (to the best of my knowledge). Many of them will be US-based, and this is probably unavoidable, but the more I can reasonably minimize the number of 🇺🇸s, the better.

  • Alas Poor ErinaceusOPEnglish
    2•11 days ago

    Signal is going to be a tough one for me to get past, since all my clueless relatives are on it…

    • @[email protected]English
      4•11 days ago

      Let’s say Signal goes full maga. The chats are encrypted and there are no subscriptions or ads. What are the downsides?

      • @[email protected]English
        7•11 days ago

        I’m currently using Signal, and happy with it, but they still don’t have reproducible builds, making it impossible to confirm that the code we can read on GitHub is actually what is running on my device

        So, even now, it could be doing something that isn’t able to be audited

        I guess Element/Matrix or Briar are the better options from this perspective, without losing any end to end encryption