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SoverinIn this interview with Eurofiber’s Elisabeth Hankeln and Soverin’s Diana Krieger, the message is clear: if Europe wants to stay in control of its data, we need to build and support our own infrastructure.Europe has the talent, the regulation, and the market. Now it’s about execution. The building blocks are already here—let’s connect them.Read the (Dutch) article via: <a href="https://itchannelpro.nl/elisabeth-hankeln-eurofiber-en-diana-krieger-soverin-over-digitale-soevereiniteit/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://itchannelpro.nl/elisabeth-hankeln-eurofiber-en-diana-krieger-soverin-over-digitale-soevereiniteit/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenInternet</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalSovereignty</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CloudIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CloudIndependence</a>

JcrabappleInlineStyle, your open cloudThis looks very interesting!<a href="https://www.inlinestyle.it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inlinestyle.it/</a><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a>

Àlex HinojoToday, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> CFO said that with 10M euro they'd reach their main structural goals. Mastodon is a Made in Europe project, fulfilling our "European Values". Would love the <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a> endorsing it, and our main public figures opening accounts - or even instances. We are all part of the needed change.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a>

TutaWhat are your favorite <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#European</a> tech tools?Why choose European?✅ Increased Privacy ✅ Better Data protectionCheck out our in-depth guide for more European products 👉 <a href="https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChooseEu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChooseEu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a>

Raphael AlbertI'm offering free privacy consulting to any project that aims at building a privacy-minded, responsible, open source, and European-Union-based alternative to some U.S. big tech oligopolist's service. It's time to act, and I will gladly do what I can to help! So please just text me if you're interested! -- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataProtection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GDPR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BuyEuropean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BuyEuropean</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a>

mailbox.orgGiven global developments, European businesses and individuals face a choice: continue relying on US technologies or gain greater data control and sovereignty.We are happy that <a href="https://social.mailbox.org/@mailbox_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mailbox_org</a> has been listed as a leading European alternative by european-alternatives.eu.Discover the benefits of our email solution: <a href="https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers</a><a href="https://social.mailbox.org/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalSovereignty</a> <a href="https://social.mailbox.org/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://social.mailbox.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataProtection</a>

All Europeans 🇪🇺For our second <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a> here (we forgot it last week), we wanted to recommend European search engines 🇪🇺 that have accounts here on Mastodon. :mastolove:So we tried to find on Mastodon the European companies listed on this post: <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/114174129661206035" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/114174129661206035</a>But unfortunately, very few of them are present on Mastodon. 😢We believe that those companies who have chosen to join the Fediverse deserve our attention, even if we have not yet used their services.By receiving their news in our feeds, we might be inspired to explore their services and be informed about their developments.So we suggest following these 5 accounts to show your support and witness their growth as it unfolds. 😃 <a href="https://suma-ev.social/@MetaGer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@MetaGer</a> 🇩🇪 (2.2k followers) - Congrats for having their own instance! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@StartpageSearch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@StartpageSearch</a> 🇳🇱 (4k followers) <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Mojeek</a> 🇬🇧 (3.3k followers) <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Swisscows" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Swisscows</a> 🇨🇭 (69 followers)There is also the Open Web Search account: <a href="https://suma-ev.social/@openwebsearcheu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@openwebsearcheu</a>. While they are not a company, they are a coalition of European research and computing centers that promotes Europe's independence in web search. If you'd like to be updated about Europe's digital sovereignty and search engine markets, follow them too! Do you know any other European search engine that deserves a follow? Let us know! 🙂<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/europeanalternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#europeanalternatives</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BuyFromEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BuyFromEU</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SearchEngine</a>

Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀<a href="https://techhub.social/@sponkae" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sponkae</a> Some months ago I wrote this story about <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> including DeepL for translations, Toggl for time management, Fairphone as a smartphone, Murena as a degoogled operating system, and others:<a href="https://europeanperspective.news/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen-online/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://europeanperspective.news/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen-online/</a>

Privacy GuidesThere is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: <a href="https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/</a><a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EUTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EUTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/USElection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USElection2024</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EUCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EUCloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EuropeanAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanAlternatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/PrivacyGuides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrivacyGuides</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/Article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Article</a>

Jonah AragonAs American Big Tech companies continue to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/apple/2025/03/eu-accuses-google-and-apple-of-stifling-competition-under-digital-markets-act/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">flout EU regulations</a>, and the US Government <a href="https://archive.ph/EJ26f" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">cuts off critical defense technology</a> to Ukraine, there is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.I wrote this latest <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@privacyguides</a> article to highlight some of the many privacy-respecting, European tools that can replace the tech you use every day: <a href="https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/</a><a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EUTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EUTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/USElection2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USElection2024</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EUCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EUCloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/EuropeanAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanAlternatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/PrivacyGuides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrivacyGuides</a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/Article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Article</a>

Netopia EUNEW POST: Public funding alone can’t build a European Amazon. Challenges like scale, market dynamics, consumer preferences, and innovation investment make it unlikely. <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Ecommerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecommerce</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AntiTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiTrust</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/TechFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechFunding</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/MarketCompetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarketCompetition</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/PublicPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicPolicy</a> <a href="https://www.netopia.eu/why-no-amount-of-public-money-will-buy-a-euro-amazon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.netopia.eu/why-no-amount-of-public-money-will-buy-a-euro-amazon/</a>

Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀I'm looking for a European alternative to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Substack</a>What I like from Substack is that it's a community of writers, really focused on providing tools for them. It's a precious attitude.But I don't want to be there with the disseminators of hate.For now, I've found <a href="https://www.kessel.media/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kessel.media/</a>French, writer-oriented, doesn't allow sexism, racism, homophobia, hate speech. Let's see more of it. Are you aware of other options? <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kessel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kessel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@european_alternatives" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@european_alternatives</a>

Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀What is the European alternative to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a>?Treating you as a citizen rather than a customer or a productMeet the resistance. Meet <a href="https://mastodon.social/@european_alternatives" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@european_alternatives</a> run by Constantin Graf in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Vienna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vienna</a>Why? 1. Keep the money in European business 2. Better data protection. 3. VAT refunds 4. Services hosted in the EUOverall: Support the freedom of the online citizenEuropean Alternatives has more than 300 applications. Check them out!<a href="https://european-alternatives.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://european-alternatives.eu/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Digital</a>

Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀How to be a free European citizen onlineSurrounded by American Big Tech, Europe counters with: - Legislative action against their abuses (<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DMA</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DSA</a>) - <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanTech</a> brings better productsFrom the catalogue of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@european_alternatives" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@european_alternatives</a> here are 5 tools for a more free, European experience:@protonmail@mastodon.social <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Mastodon</a> DeepL Toggl IntelliJ IDEACherry on top: an ethical phone (<a href="https://social.weho.st/@WeAreFairphone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@WeAreFairphone</a>) with a de-googled operating system (by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@e_mydata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@e_mydata</a>)Full article on: <a href="https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen</a>

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