The global situation has changed dramatically, and European trust in the US is dwindling. Even after a return to a more moderate US, it will take years to rebuild mutual trust. This is especially true given that many alternative systems are now being developed in Europe. More and more data centres and AI providers are emerging, and other typical service providers are also gaining in importance.
What does this mean for me? I, too, am moving many of my services that were previously hosted in the US to Europe. This is an effect that the current US administration has brought upon itself. Not my personal move, but the movement of a large number of European companies and users.
Something I’ve already started before the chaos begun is my running my dedicate server for web and mail at a German datacenter. Today I moved both to another company in Germany providing more service and make it so more convenient.
After leaving Twitter I went to Mastodon, a federated network of chat servers. Bluesky so for had only in US, so I only reserved my themue. But I now have migrated to Eurosky. It uses the AT protocol too and is integrated into the network.
One of the next tasks will be AI. Okay, I still love Claude, which is an extremely powerful system in development. But I am currently dipping my toes into Mistral, Aleph Alpha and my own Ollame.
Another long time used platform is GitHub. HereI am planning to say goodbye and moving towards Codeberg and I am already looking forward to it.
Oh yes, sovereignty. An article I am preparing for this site is “The Limits of Sovereignty“’.
