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What are some great tech services made by europeans? (lemmy.ca)
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I have been wondering recently what European services I should be checking out :)

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[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Kolabnow for mail! Based in Switzerland, focused on privacy.

[–] andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This might be useful: https://european-alternatives.eu/

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thanks, I just bookmarked the page!

[–] Elrecoal19_0@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I posted it to the front so it can be seen easily

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 4 days ago

Nextcloud is German, I think.

[–] Kyouki@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

https://european-alternatives.eu/

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The first I can think of (because I'm using them):

  • Filen (E2E) encrypted cloud from Germany. Replaced my other cloud services for a few months now.
  • Codeberg, for git stuff. I'm no dev (I just use it for my own little scripts) so I could not tell how feature-rich it is or if it lacks anything it is but so far it seems to be working great ;)
  • Mullvad VPN, Swedish if I'm not mistaken.
  • Should I also mention LibreOffice? It's not a European product, but its 'foundation' is German-based if I recall correctly.
  • Hetzner a German company for cloud, webhosting and some other stuff I can't even begin to understand ;)

That said, I mostly focus on software being Free/Libre. Maybe in the coming years, with the rise shit nationalistic politics that we're witnessing, I will have to focus on EU-made products and services only—that would be sad.

[–] Emperor 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hetzner a German company for cloud, webhosting and some other stuff I can’t even begin to understand ;)

They're the power behind a lot of the Fediverse - long may they continue.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

+1 to this.

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago

If you don't want or can't self-host, I can recommend Posteo for E-Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Filen.io for Cloud-Storage.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

OpenBSD Amsterdam

https://openbsd.amsterdam/

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Proton, Tutanota, Disroot & Codeberg

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My friend uses zoner.cz for editing photos. The license is like 50€ and at least for us (we use it for editing photos for children group) they don't care about password sharing.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Affinity Photo used to be a European product, but the developer was recently bought by Canva, a multi national software company based in Australia.

You can however still buy a perpetual license for a one time fee.

[–] jabjoe 5 points 3 days ago

LibreOffice, Odoo, Mastodon, Nextcloud and more. Lots of Linux distros and desktops are based in Europe.

There is a lot of FOSS done in Europe and EU is very proactive with it. CERN is really helping open hardware and KiCAD.

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

platform.io is Ukrainian so is Grammarly and GitLab and Reface and Restream

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Proton is probably my most used euroware.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Controversial take, Spotify