I'm particularly curious which sectors are seeing the most interest - cloud services? Productivity tools? Communication platforms? That data could help prioritize where European companies should focus innovation efforts.
They’ve also opened up their analytics data here: https://plausible.io/european-alternatives.eu
Noteworthy percentage of Firefox users.
I'm fairly sure Ukraine, Canada, Panama, Denmark and the EU as a whole, they're all turning from US allies to indiferent at best. People are actively looking for non US products where they can.
Trump, like Putin, will probably be remembered as the gravedigger for his country.
The Russian web shows an interesting alternate universe where western copyright is not a thing.
If the war leads to the downfall of Russia, I worry that the last vestiges of the ‘free’ internet that helps billions of people in third world countries access content will be gone forever.
It’s already partially the case with a good fraction of servers in Ukraine gone.
So basically EU countries + Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine. Notably, this does not include the UK or Russia.
Try to host a server allowing people to download movies or songs and you’ll see how fast you are offline in most countries.
Check out how far governments went to snag the Pirate Bay folks and more recently the various darknet markets.
Sci-hub. Edward Snowden.
If war does break out and Russia or many countries including Russia is destroyed that’d be horrible.
There’s so much more to do in the world in 2025 so much more we could do as a species but as a species we seem hellbent on killing ourselves.
It's one of the likely outcomes of the war unless someone with a decent amount of influence in Russia takes Putin down.
I’d love to see somebody nail the UX of distributed compute in your home that you own. A box I can buy that is similar UX to managing a SaaS account after plugging it into my router, with automatic management, updates, encrypted backup across cloud providers, and an App Store for services I can install on this appliance that gives self-hosted apps a means to monetize. Then scale that foundation up to business needs and really profit.
These ideas have existed before but IMO nobody nailed the UX and most people didn’t believe we’d light our own basket on fire for fun back then, so the market wasn’t there.
I don't think so. That's like complaining about the decision to change a flat tire because all other tires can blow up just as easily.
Can you present a single objective argument that rejects the idea of de-risking your choice of cloud provider?
This is a clear message to those who have not yet lighted their baskets on fire not to make the same mistake, because we can and will find enough other baskets. Looking at the current stock market this does send a strong message.
Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin and the likes want to create a system where democracy is replaced by consumer spending decisions, because they are narcissistic enough to believe they will be the ones on to after their proposed system change. Telling them clearly: "No you won't be on top after this" is an absolutely important message to send.
