• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    2 months ago

    For the love of all gods, stop recommending Proton, it’s run by a fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards even more than Silicon Valley tech-bros. You might as well use American companies at that point.

    • accideath@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      That’s strong accusations and the first I’m hearing of that. Do you have a source? Because the only controversy I know of is that their CEO praised Trump’s pick for attorney general for the antitrust division a bit too enthusiastically. Which is not a stellar look but that does not make him a „fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards.“

      • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        The only place people are throwing up the whole Proton / Trump controversy is Reddit and Lemmy. Lemmy is particularly worse. As bad as the endless scrolling of Linux praise and Windows bashing.

        There’s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.

        • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          1·
          2 months ago

          There’s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.

          Would you have that link by any chance? That would be neat to use as a counter argument.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    These lists are consistently bad. To the extent I’m beginning to think it’s intentional so people don’t like the alternatives and go back to the worst.

    • Kualdir@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Switched to proton pass free from paid bitwarden and gotta say, its just better on so many fronts.

      • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I switched from paid Proton Pass to free selfhosted Bitwarden and it’s so much better (ok I combined it with a lite anonaddy account).

  • mazot@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    That’s how i came and register from reddit just like 5 mins ago and this is my first ever comment.

  • vegantomato@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    Whether an app/service is EU based should not always be a deciding factor when determining if it should be recommended.

    Signal is a great example of that. It is based in the US, but surpasses other mobile messaging apps in terms of privacy and convenience. It is a US-based app you should recommend.

    So let’s be nuanced and take into account that EU-based products or services may not always be the best choice, even with regards to empowering European citizens. In many cases, you will find that European states seek to disempower their citizens through the use of surveillance. So it is pretty ironic when a team of Americans are empowering you while your own government seeks to take that power away (Chat Control and the likes) to further subjugate you.

    • XM34@feddit.orgEnglish
      01·
      2 months ago

      While I do agree with the general sentiment, this is NOT a “best product ever” community. Thos community has the explicit goal to provide European alternatives. Otherwise we could just scrap the entire idea and just go back to YouTube, Google and MS Office. Because let’s be real for a moment. They are at the top of their respective markets for a reason.

      Also, Signal sucks! The only thing it has going for itself is security. Everything else is at best on par with other messengers. Signal has no voting, no tool bots, no topics for group chats, no cloud backup, etc.

      No bear in mind, if security is what you want from a messenger, then Signal will do the job. But then again, why not just promote Matrix? It has pretty much the same (lack of) features and it’s actually European.

  • EfreetSK@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    Mapy.cz is an absolute must for hiking in Czechia and Slovakia, Google maps isn’t even close. Not sure how the situation is in other countries though

    Curently trying it as my daily driver and it does pretty good job too

    • 🇳🇱 Snoezelpoes@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Mapy is great for hiking outside of Czechia and Slovakia, I use it a lot in the Netherlands! I had to stop using the navigation tough because I ran into some issues with it.