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The EU wants to decrease reliance on American technology. Hereโ€™s what happened when a POLITICO reporter tried to live and work without it.

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[โ€“] erebion@news.erebion.eu 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you really think they cannot find a way to take over Signal, if they really want?

Thet seem to already control the Supreme Court, wouldn't be suprised to see them take over Signal at some point.

[โ€“] Europellinore@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what solution are you proposing? And by that I donโ€™t mean things that โ€˜the marketโ€™ or something similar would, in an ideal world, sort out for us, but measures that individuals can take today?

[โ€“] erebion@news.erebion.eu 1 points 1 week ago

Use decentralised communication.

https://joinjabber.org/

Nobody has full control over all emails or phone calls in the whole world, this should also be the case for messaging.

Avoid single points of failure. A decentralised system cannot be broken, even if all countries agreed to fight it, it would likely still continue to exist.

If a single provider closes shop, the rest continues to exist.

We need resilient infrastructure, especially in these troubling times.