European alternatives for digital products
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I had already posted this with a lemm.ee account, and moved here because lemmy.world is hosted in EU, but seems like the post got deleted along with the account. I’m sorry for the possible spam.
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It's missing lemmy and matrix, but at least they have mastodon listed.
Yeah, at least they (supposedly) have a chat to propose stuff. I already proposed EU-hosted Lemmy instances. What is matrix, by the way? First time I heard of it.
the fediverse chat protocol
started as a seperate project but is spiritually very aligned with the rest of the fediverse
so it got "included" to the fediverse (not compatible with ActivityPub)
if you want to try it: https://element.io/ (or other clients: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/ )
so the way usernames are managed is @username:instance, so, if I'm in the matrix one, it would be @elrecoal19:matrix.org, and yet I can contact people on other instances like @friend:differentInstance, right?
yes, that's exactly the idea
it works just like e-mail adresses but for chats
okay, thanks for explaining!
I already proposed some things to them in the past. They responded really quickly and added my suggestions right away. I just wrote them a private message on Mastodon: @european_alternatives@mastodon.social
Good to hear
Its a chat protocol with encryption build in. Its like Discord and/or Whatsapp like.
That sounds nice, only bad thing is most people probably still don't use it.
Afaik they are the only ones currently who at least anonced that they want to implement the DMA (EU law) enforced WhatsApp chat interoperability: https://element.io/blog/the-eu-digital-markets-act-is-here/
So there is hope that at least in europe this could become an alternative.
fun fact: some german institutions hosting unfederated servers (or only internaly federated servers) to use the matrix protocoll for internal communication: https://element.io/matrix-in-germany
There is a reason for the missing federation outside.
At least the one for Health Services is limited to licensed Healthcare Professionals so you know for sure you only communicate with other licensed professionals, and also you know that the displayed name is the real one
Yes ofc, it was not meant as a critisism.
Well, there are some great opensource software projects that are on the Matrix network. Look at matrix.org :) I host my own server for some friends, just like i host my own Lemmy etc.
Should be like an alternative to Discord. Don't really use it so can't judge how it holds up