#digitalsoverignty — Public Fediverse posts
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I have now completed transferring all my applications from #DigitalOcean to #Scaleway. Still got a couple minor things to sort out, but the bulk is done.
Until 2 weeks ago, I have never had any problems with DigitalOcean. They provided good, stable, cheap not-exactly-big-tech cloud services that I have used personallt and professionally. I have a problem with their #government – personally, not speaking as a professional here.
DigitalOcean is located in the #US, which has two problems that can no longer be ignored:
1) the introduction of the #CLOUD act gives US governments rights to spy on any service provided by a US company, even if that is hosted elsewhere. This was a problem when enacted in 2018, and has become even worse in 2025 when the US demonstrated it is willing and able to abuse this power for political reasons.
2) by paying for US cloud services, I am indirectly supporting the US. It is entirely #unethical to support the US, a hostile regime.
Sure, this is not directly attributable to DigitalOcean; they may be as much as anybody else a victim of the US government. Sucks for them. Maybe do better at voting next time and elect a government that doesn't actively drive away customers?
Oh, and two weeks ago, somebody at DigitalOcean rolled around in a pile of s̵h̵i̵t̵ #AI and smeared big stinking globs of t̵u̵r̵d̵ #LLM all over the cloud console, making it much worse to use, which is not a point in their favor, though #DigitalSoverignty is the main driver. -
I have now completed transferring all my applications from #DigitalOcean to #Scaleway. Still got a couple minor things to sort out, but the bulk is done.
Until 2 weeks ago, I have never had any problems with DigitalOcean. They provided good, stable, cheap, not-exactly-big-tech cloud services that I have used personally and professionally. I have a problem with their #government – personally, not speaking as a professional here.
DigitalOcean is located in the #US, which leads to two problems that can no longer be ignored:
1) the introduction of the #CLOUD act gives US governments rights to spy on any service provided by a US-owned company, even if that is hosted elsewhere. This was a problem when enacted in 2018, and has become even worse in 2025 when the US demonstrated it is willing and able to abuse this power for #political reasons.
2) by paying for US cloud services, I am indirectly supporting the US. It is entirely #unethical to support the US, a #hostile #regime.
Sure, this is not directly attributable to DigitalOcean; they may be as much a victim of the US government as anybody else. Sucks for them. Maybe do better at voting next time and elect a government that doesn't actively drive away customers?
Oh, and two weeks ago, somebody at DigitalOcean rolled around in a pile of s̵h̵i̵t̵ #AI and smeared big stinking globs of t̵u̵r̵d̵ #LLM all over the cloud console, making it much worse to use. This is absolutely not a point in their favor, though #DigitalSoverignty is the main driver for me leaving. -
I have now completed transferring all my applications from #DigitalOcean to #Scaleway. Still got a couple minor things to sort out, but the bulk is done.
Until 2 weeks ago, I have never had any problems with DigitalOcean. They provided good, stable, cheap, not-exactly-big-tech cloud services that I have used personally and professionally. I have a problem with their #government – personally, not speaking as a professional here.
DigitalOcean is located in the #US, which leads to two problems that can no longer be ignored:
1) the introduction of the #CLOUD act gives US governments rights to spy on any service provided by a US-owned company, even if that is hosted elsewhere. This was a problem when enacted in 2018, and has become even worse in 2025 when the US demonstrated it is willing and able to abuse this power for #political reasons.
2) by paying for US cloud services, I am indirectly supporting the US. It is entirely #unethical to support the US, a #hostile #regime.
Sure, this is not directly attributable to DigitalOcean; they may be as much a victim of the US government as anybody else. Sucks for them. Maybe do better at voting next time and elect a government that doesn't actively drive away customers?
Oh, and two weeks ago, somebody at DigitalOcean rolled around in a pile of s̵h̵i̵t̵ #AI and smeared big stinking globs of t̵u̵r̵d̵ #LLM all over the cloud console, making it much worse to use. This is absolutely not a point in their favor, though #DigitalSoverignty is the main driver for me leaving. -
I have now completed transferring all my applications from #DigitalOcean to #Scaleway. Still got a couple minor things to sort out, but the bulk is done.
Until 2 weeks ago, I have never had any problems with DigitalOcean. They provided good, stable, cheap, not-exactly-big-tech cloud services that I have used personally and professionally. I have a problem with their #government – personally, not speaking as a professional here.
DigitalOcean is located in the #US, which leads to two problems that can no longer be ignored:
1) the introduction of the #CLOUD act gives US governments rights to spy on any service provided by a US-owned company, even if that is hosted elsewhere. This was a problem when enacted in 2018, and has become even worse in 2025 when the US demonstrated it is willing and able to abuse this power for #political reasons.
2) by paying for US cloud services, I am indirectly supporting the US. It is entirely #unethical to support the US, a #hostile #regime.
Sure, this is not directly attributable to DigitalOcean; they may be as much a victim of the US government as anybody else. Sucks for them. Maybe do better at voting next time and elect a government that doesn't actively drive away customers?
Oh, and two weeks ago, somebody at DigitalOcean rolled around in a pile of s̵h̵i̵t̵ #AI and smeared big stinking globs of t̵u̵r̵d̵ #LLM all over the cloud console, making it much worse to use. This is absolutely not a point in their favor, though #DigitalSoverignty is the main driver for me leaving. -
Upcoming European office suite stack "Euro-office" was announced. It is not a single product, but a form of collaboration between Nextcloud, OpenProject, Xwiki and others. The interesting part is that for document editing they chose OnlyOffice, but instead of collaboration model, it was forked. Makes sense because it seems to be rooted in russia, but I have no idea how much devs and years you need to continue development of a seemingly massive product. Do they bet on AI? For the long term, I hope not. Interesting choice, however.
https://www.xda-developers.com/euro-office-free-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-365-google-docs/
#eurooffice
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@tek da hätte @fairkom fairchat [matrix] im Angebot https://fairkom.eu/fairchat-matrix
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@outraspalavras
"How Trump sabotages Brazilian digital sovereignty.
Not only BRA of course:"Classified internally as action request—t is, a request 4concrete action,not mere observation—he instructs American diplomats 2monitor legislative proposals on data in their countries of action &to intervene w/ local govts & regulators 2discourage such initiatives.The language is unequivocal: US reps must "combat unnecessarily costly regulations, such as data localization mandates."
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The European Commission finally considering software other than Microsoft Teams for their internal communications ... because using MS Teams in government is like Captain Darling writing letters to his German relative with all the details about their plans, in "Blackadder goes forth".
"The Matrix protocol is being lined up as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams"
https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/HT https://infosec.exchange/@lalgorisme/116022945046399418
#EuropeanCommission #matrix #DigitalSoverignty #EU #EuropeanUnion
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All the more reason for EU and beyond to get off US cloud services.
You wouldn't use Russian cloud services in 2026 🤷🏻♂️
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115830673005081570 -
Great to see this #PublicDigital work on #DigitalSoverignty https://public.digital/pd-insights/blog/2025/07/our-view-on-digital-sovereignty
There is a lot here which governments should be digging into.
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Help end digital colonialism.
Join #GlobalSwitchDay on 1 Feb and help your friends leave corporate media platforms that profit from harvesting as much data as possible about our lives.
https://mastodon.social/@sylv_a/113872073856115364
#DigitalColonialism #digitalSoverignty #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS #FLOSS #Fediverse #decentralized #surveillanceCapitalism
