European Alternatives to US-based products and services
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  • Bora M. Alper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    In my opinion replacing US Big Tech with European alternatives is bullshit unless they are also free software. Many European alternatives who started in Europe later moved to the US when they got big for better access to capital etc. It’s like moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky only to see its enshittification 10 years down the line.

    • limit6motives@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Re enshitification that’s my thinking about LLMs right now. The managed chat-services offer nice UX… now… but surely at some point it will be crap and I’ll have to start self-hosting anyway… so why not jump to the last step right away and see how it goes. I can always revert if homemade solution turns out disastrous.

      Also, if I’m making an effort to ditch comfortable product already, it’s only a little bit more effort to jump on the open source bandwagon rather than another corporate train.