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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.
Can't let the struggle for perfection get in the way of good.
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
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.
Isn't Bluesky still US big tech?
It is, but at least the CEO does not make Nazi salutes
yet
That's a pretty low bar.
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.
Open source
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.
Bluesky does federation-washing
Not fully open source AFAIK.