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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Uhhhhh, Big Tech can and does also exist in Europe, Blaze. We need people switching to FOSS and non-profit software, but switching from American proprietary software to European proprietary software as a stopgap at least plausibly makes things somewhat better – owing to better regulations.

[–] Blaze@europe.pub 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh, indeed. Ideal would be FOSS, but if people can already stop using the US Big Tech that's still something.

Like people leaving Twitter for Bluesky

[–] Jozav@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

The alternative for Tw!ter is Mastodon. Bsky's business model is based on growth, it will be sold for billions to the highest bidder once there are sufficient subscribers locked in.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't Bluesky still US big tech?

[–] Blaze 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is, but at least the CEO does not make Nazi salutes

[–] zonnewin 26 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Airowird@lemm.ee 10 points 22 hours ago

Yet Musk manages to limbo underneath.

Oh, who am I kidding, he couldn't hit the bar doing his feeble attempt at a jumping jack.

[–] Kualdir 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] tfm@europe.pub 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

Still, it's run by a large American tech company and has a federation model that makes self-hosting and true decentralization somewhere between difficult and impossible.

[–] mitram2@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Not fully open source AFAIK.

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