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Scary but true. I have moved all my activity to non-US operations; not perfect but a start.

American tech corporations are just greedy collaborators and appeasers to current fascist regime.

Not trust worthy.....they are major part of problem.

@Daojoan Thank you so much for this resource!

@Daojoan excellent list. Going to be checking out a few of the apps in here.

@Daojoan This is great, thank you for sharing. I noticed that Signal isn’t in the messaging and communication section — any particular reason?

@Daojoan nice! I recently also switched to Debian as an OS and it is fantastic, big recommend if you ever do the jump.

@Daojoan thanks so much for this list - I'm using https://plausible.io/ for analytics, and have been pleased with both their features and their data management practices.

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I had committed to Joplin, then they dropped support for older MacOS. So now I have...nothing. I have Joplin on a bunch of devices and they can't sync. Actually had to go back to Apple.

Seems strange for such a simple note app, but so many open source projects don't support older Mac systems, and you can't upgrade them.

I have yet to ever use a note app that hasn't screwed me, again, weird for something so simple.

@Daojoan thank you for this.

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There is zero reason to advocate corporate or government cloud services or hosting to ANYONE.

@Daojoan Excellent - I have updated my "Degoogle" list of apps to migrate to. One tool at a time!

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Sharing this list with friends and family thank you so much. It’s a great resource. I love it.

@Daojoan Awesome, thanks!

@Daojoan sync.com Canada based alternative to Dropbox.

I've self-hosted Matomo since it was Piwik. The only person with my analytics data is me.

But if you have to travel to, through, or over the US, leave Dropbox there with some fluff data and tuck Sync into a sub-folder. Border agents will sometimes take a peek to see if you're into bad things, so lots of kitten and puppy pics works.

@Daojoan l'm using PasswordSafe (https://www.pwsafe.org/). Does it get a pass mark?

@Daojoan this is such an excellent writeup, thank you for making it!! 🙌

@Daojoan I am more than a little uncomfortable with Yen's statements. It's a deal killer for me.

@Daojoan I'd highly recommend Tresorit for EU-based encrypted storage. It's a very mature product, richly featured, can be set as a virtual drive directly accessible from all your apps. Includes auto-upload of photos + vids off your phone.

@Daojoan Eyyyy Todoist! It's been my bread and butter for a decade. Its low friction and simplicity has helped me manage my ADHD pretty well.

Absolutely phenomenal product.

Most of these are great, the one exception here is Proton.

They've been doing some disappointing things lately. Integration of AI, weird political statements seemingly in support of the GOP, hand-wavy addressing of criticism of those statements, now movement off of Mastodon and opting for Reddit for communications, certainly not a neutral, decentralized open source platform. That move seems a bit too convenient time-wise with the criticism.

I hope they change their tune.

@Daojoan USA - EU data protection & privacy agreement is broken. Here's a useful list of European & Canadian software suppliers, to bypass USA Trump tech.

@Daojoan Good write-up. Annoying trying to find alternatives as a Canadian because almost everything we use online has to be connected to or directly owned by US firms.

Really hope this ends up having a positive response and we can grow stronger ties with the rest of the world as well as grow what we can do as a country.

@Daojoan two other categories to possibly add to your list are mapping and fitness/mapping. For mapping Open Streets Map has come a lomg way in the last few years. Fitness is a big category and no one has a real competitor to big US tech devices, but fitness mapping Komoot (Germany) actually bests Strava in some ways.

@Daojoan thanks so much for putting this together. Friends and family have been asking and this is great. Appreciate you! ✌️💙