Careful now, your Lemmy instance may run on AWS. (Haven’t checked at all — but what I am trying to say is that a lot of people blinded themselves with half-baked ideas about TCO and stumbled right into American cloud services.)
You will never get Amazon or Apple blocked in Germany. X or Meta sure… but Germans are way too lazy to not use Amazon and Apple fanboys would go crazy if they couldn’t buy the stuff in Germany.
From that list I see amazon as the least problematic though. Still problematic of course, but compared to the likes of Meta, Google or X they at least don’t have influence on the information you get. They “just” dominate shoppng and hosting
Yes, but the owners of these companies, all billionaires, influence society and the markets for their own benefit, and the lives of the American people are getting worse every year…
Time to put pressure on his oligarchs, Block X.
tax the hell out of them, then block.
same with meta, amazon, google, apple, etc
Careful now, your Lemmy instance may run on AWS. (Haven’t checked at all — but what I am trying to say is that a lot of people blinded themselves with half-baked ideas about TCO and stumbled right into American cloud services.)
You will never get Amazon or Apple blocked in Germany. X or Meta sure… but Germans are way too lazy to not use Amazon and Apple fanboys would go crazy if they couldn’t buy the stuff in Germany.
tThe current ranking is:
So there are clearly a lot of fairly succesful alternatives to Amazon.
That’s a neat list. I want show off the Netherlands. Top 5 is pure Dutch(ish)
Positie Naam Herkomst Branche Omzet in euro
From that list I see amazon as the least problematic though. Still problematic of course, but compared to the likes of Meta, Google or X they at least don’t have influence on the information you get. They “just” dominate shoppng and hosting
Yes, but the owners of these companies, all billionaires, influence society and the markets for their own benefit, and the lives of the American people are getting worse every year…