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Posteo is another alternative for Mail that a lot of people overlook.(And far more “real privacy” than fucking Proton)
Bitwarden sadly still is a US company and while it hosts in EU as well, some might not think this is enough. In that case Vaultwarden can be selfhosted easily.
It is not that much work to actually get rid of most possibly unreliable US services,but it’s far more work to get other people to switch as not all services are interoperable yet…
Question: why would you store passwords with an external service?
I have a local database synched with SyncThing between phones and computers and an external copy on a server.
And your local database is encrypted?
Vaultwarden is selfhosted and audited.
Besides: Not everyone wants to selfhost and not everyone should self host.
It is encrypted: https://keepass.info/features.html
Sometimes I need a password when I don’t have my devices with me, and logging into the Bitwarden web vault is super convenient. Also, everything is encrypted on the client, and the client is FOSS, so there’s very little risk.
You can also host your own Bitwarden server, or use an independent alternative (Vaultwarden).
Bitwarden provides a lot of convenience without much compromise.
Thank you for your explanation!
I exclusively log in on my phones or computers, so the devices which have the copies of the database. (With a backup to an external server under my control.)
Good points. I do believe Bitwarden is open-source though, so it can probably be forked off into a version that doesn’t host data in the US.
You can always self-host it as well.
A good post to mention !buyeuropean@feddit.uk.
The irony of this community being hosted on feddit.uk
Wait why’s it ironic? The UK is in Europe
The person doesn’t understand the difference between Europe and European Union.
PeerTube seems fine for a YT alternative (only because it’s pretty much either it or Odysee, that’s what happens when you have an effective monopoly on user-generated content like YT does, and PeerTube IMO needs to take off sooner rather than later given how ridiculous YT’s censorship has gotten lately), and then of course Lemmy (this platform) is looking really good so far as a Reddit alternative and I’ve only been on it for a day now, ditto for Pixelfed as an Instagram alternative.
And then of course there’s Mastodon for a Twitter/Facebook alternative.
Also, Matrix seems fine for a Discord alternative, but moderation is all over the map.
Moderation is actually good on Matrix, also XMPP is a good alternative as well
https://makertube.net/ is the PeerTube instance that I’ve been using, and it’s been great.
