Privacy Guides is a non-profit project that provides information and recommendations related to privacy and security. Yesterday, they published a blogpost on european alternatives specifically.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13129663

Lemmy Apps Directory

The following is a directory of current Lemmy apps. This list includes apps that have released in the last 6 months, or have been confirmed to be in active development, with the most recent at the top. You can find a list including older apps here (unmaintained apps may have security or compatibility issues). The symbol indicates that an app is FOSS.

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Android

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	Summit
Github	!summit@lemmy.world	Play Store
1.52.3	2025-01-22

Summit is an app for Lemmy that enables you to explore hundreds of communities with ease. Summit is optimized for Android and offers a smooth browsing experience.

Dev: @idunnololz@lemmy.world

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	Voyager
Source	!voyagerapp@lemmy.world	Play Store
2.23.2	2025-01-19	F-Droid

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

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	Racoon
Source	!raccoonforlemmyapp@lemmy.world
** 1.14.0**	2025-01-06	GitHub Release

Raccoon for Lemmy is a client for the federated aggregation and discussion platform Lemmy. The project started as an exercise to play around with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose multiplatform and gradually grew as a fully functional client with many features.

Dev: @ akesi_seli@lemmy.world

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	Interstellar
Source		Play Store
0.7.1	2024-12-16	Flathub

An app for Kbin, Mbin, and Lemmy; connecting you to the fediverse.

Dev: @jwr1@kbin.earth

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	Jerboa (Official Android client)
Source	!jerboa@lemmy.ml	Play Store
0.0.77-alpha	2024-09-27	F-Droid

Jerboa for Lemmy An app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

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	Thunder
Source	!thunder_app@lemmy.world	Play Store
0.5.1	2024-08-20	IzzyOnDroid

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

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	Eternity
Source	!eternityapp@lemdro.id	Play Store
0.2.0	2024-08-06	F-Droid

A client for Lemmy, specifically designed for Android and written in Java. This project is a fork of the Infinity for Reddit project, and it is currently in the early stages of development. As such, expect many unfinished features and potential bugs!

Dev: @bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu

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	Connect
	!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca	Play Store
1.0.192	2024-08-22	APKPure

A native application for browsing the social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @kuro_neko@lemmy.ca

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	Boost
	!boostforlemmy@lemmy.world	Play Store
1.0.14	2024-07-14

Boost for Lemmy is designed to provide a seamless browsing experience for the decentralized social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @rmayayo@lemmy.world

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	Sync
GitHub	!syncforlemmy@lemmy.world	Play Store
24.03.12-19:36	2024-03-12

A beautiful Lemmy app for browsing Lemmy on the go!

Dev: @ljdawson@lemmy.world

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iOS

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	Voyager
Source	!voyagerapp@lemmy.world	App Store
2.23.2	2025-01-19

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

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	Arctic
Website	!arctic@lemmy.world	App Store
1.5.2	2025-01-08	TestFlight

Arctic For Lemmy is a free and native iOS client for Lemmy. In the spirit of the Fediverse, Arctic is completely free and private. No data of any kind will be collected from your device, and no pesky advertisements, Ever. Arctic was built specifically for iOS and runs natively on pure Swift. Enjoy browsing feeds with embedded content that keeps you out of the browser, and in the app. Engage in the conversation using the rich markdown editor, and intuitive post composer

Dev: @CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world

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	Echo
	!echo@eventfrontier.com	App Store
1.5	2024-12-11

Echo for Lemmy is a fully native iOS application built using fully native Apple SDKs. This means it feels right at home on your iPhone and is designed to be fast, efficient, and easy to use. No overhead from web views or cross-platform frameworks.

Dev: @fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com

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	Thunder
Source	!thunder_app@lemmy.world	App Store
0.5.1	2024-08-20

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

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	Lemmios
	!lemmiosapp@lemmy.world	App Store
1.9	2024-08-12	TestFlight

Lemmios is a client built for Lemmy. Discover and browse through all parts of the fediverse in an intuitive way.

Dev: @mrlavallee@lemmy.world

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	Mlem
Source	!mlemapp@lemmy.ml	App Store
1.3	2024-05-05	Website

Mlem is the first native SwiftUI Lemmy client on the AppStore. It feels right at home on your iPhone (and soon iPad and Mac). With tons of options for customizing your your experience.

Dev: @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml

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Linux

	Neon Modem Overdrive
Source		Site
v1.0.5	2024-05-28	GitHub Release

BBS-style command line client that supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and Hacker News

Web

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	Alexandrite
Source	!alexandrite@lemmy.world	Web UI
0.8.15	2025-01-20

Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

Dev: @sheodox@lemmy.world

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	Voyager
Source	!voyagerapp@lemmy.world	Web UI
2.23.2	2025-01-19

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

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	Tesseract
Source	!tesseract@dubvee.org	Web UI
1.4.29	2025-01-13

Formerly Tesseract for Lemmy. Now “Tesseract for Sublinks” Development is now targeting the upcoming Sublinks project. As Sublinks aims to provide initial compatibility with Lemmy, Tesseract will continue to work with Lemmy for the foreseeable future. Once the Sublinks project moves into its native API phase, Lemmy support will be dropped from Tesseract.

Dev: @ptz@dubvee.org

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	Photon
Source	!Photon@lemdro.id	Web UI
1.31.4	2024-09-20

An sleek web client for Lemmy using mono-ui, a custom design system.

Dev: @Xylight@lemdro.id

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	Quiblr
	!quiblr@lemmy.world	Web UI
2.1.0	2024-08-03

Quiblr aims to build an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse.

Dev: @Aurelius@lemmy.world

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	mlmym
Source		Web UI
0.0.50	2024-07-21

a familiar desktop experience for lemmy.

Dev: @

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	Lemmuy-UI
Source	!lemmy@lemmy.ml	Web UI
0.19.5	2024-06-19

The official web app for Lemmy, written in inferno. Based off of MrFoxPro's inferno-isomorphic-template.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

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	Lemmynade
Site	!lemmynade@lemm.ee	Web UI
Alpha v4	2/23/2024

Lemmynade is the refreshing web app for Lemmy, currently in development. The goal is to make Lemmy more powerful, approachable, useable, and sustainable. Follow !lemmynade@lemm.ee for announcements and updates

Dev: @silas@programming.dev

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~Updated 2025-01-23~

They've stopped sponsoring SF Pride, even though their "we're so inclusive" bits on their website are still up.

They own a LOT of brands, so check out the Wiki and avoid them like the plague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVMH

Just sharing my standard prompt to Mistral chat (in this example used to validate my continued use of Joplin for note taking and sharing across devices - works great for me). Hope someone finds it helpful in exercising a due diligence.

Can you research and summarize the background of software "Joplin" - ownership, applicable law, financials and potential controversies around?

In case the summary was calling for action, I'd ask for alternatives

Can you find free alternative solutions governed by EU law (any member) and available for Android, Windows and Linux

Edit: original post has some corrections, as some translations are faulty.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27064382

Well, quite ambitioned for a one-man-show, also the chosen linux distro as base can be disputed.

The mark to be appealing to "typical public sector organisation[s]" is quite high, but in regards to the team (one man?) I'm remembered of elmenteryOS and how the two founders managed before splitting ways. They pulled it off for a while.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24846782

Summary

Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.

The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.

Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.

Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.

geteilt von: https://feddit.nl/post/30601987

Just here to shed some light on Bookwyrm.social, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. I've been doing some more reading lately, and I like to keep track of what I read and also I like reading other's review, suggestions, etc. Now I boycot amazon and others big tech as much as possible, so for me Bookwyrm.social is the place to be. It's steadily growing I think, but I thought it deserved some more attention, therefor this post. Same goes for BookBrainz and to a lesser extend IA's Openlibrary. OpenLibrary is, among other things, a place where people catalogue book-metadata, and if a book is not on Bookwyrm.social yet, it can often be imported from OpenLibrary. Problem with OpenLibrary is that the data is often messy and there are a lot of duplicates. That's where BookBrainz comes in, the book-equivalent of MusicBrainz. They're not that big yet, but what they do very well is that they have got very clean data. I feel like BookBrainz has the potential to be the perfect source of data on books, for other apps to use as they please, similar to how MusicBrainz is already functioning. It just needs more contributors, but I'm sure it's steadily growing. I just started doing my part, adding the books I read on all three.

Would love to hear thoughts on these platforms, as well as other platform suggestion if you've got any.

Deutsche Version: https://www.heise.de/news/Industrie-fordert-EU-Kommission-zu-Buy-European-Initiative-auf-10318660.html

“Those who buy Patriot should be offered the new-generation Franco-Italian SAMP/T. Those who buy the F-35, should be offered the Rafale,” French president says.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/30518068

Credits: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/

Well the title says it already. Is it possible to source an ergonomic keyboard from the EU? After finding the tenth keyboard layout or music keyboard page I'm giving up searching and start asking.

I've found several EU resellers but not yet something really produced locally

Bonus points for split keyboard and being custom flashable (would love native neo2 support).

Thanks for any pointers!

To recommend European alternatives is a good start, but we can accelerate the process by disrupting tech giants in multiple ways. This article offers a good list.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7469

Edit: from the comments it looks like Gerband is way superior to Tesa and also from Germany.

Originally posted on Reddit

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23996234

The rallying call to put European tech first — backed by companies including Airbus, Element, OVHCloud, Murena, Nextcloud, and Proton, to name a few — follows the shock of the Munich security conference, where U.S. Vice President JD Vance tore into Europe like an attack dog, leaving delegates in no doubt that the post-War international order is in tatters and all bets are off when it comes to what the U.S. might do under President Donald Trump.

Key tech infrastructure that’s owned and operated by U.S. companies doesn’t look like such a solid buy, from a European perspective, if a presidential executive order can be issued forcing U.S. firms to switch off service provision or terminate a supply chain at a pen stroke.

“Imagine Europe without internet search, email, or office software. It would mean the complete breakdown of our society. Sounds unrealistic? Well, something similar just happened to Ukraine,” Wolfgang Oels, COO of the Berlin-based, tree-planting search engine Ecosia — one signatory to the letter that was already taking steps aimed at reducing its dependency on U.S. Big Tech suppliers — tells TechCrunch.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/6784

I see a lot of posts of people complaining that some import products from the EU are too expensive in their own country - namely there was a viral post about someone from Bulgaria sharing that the German Fritz Cola is 2x more expensive than the US alternatives.

In this movement no one is asking you to buy Fritz, buy Bulgarian alternatives first - I am sure there are plenty of bulgarian cola alternatives.

If you live in Bulgaria (ofc whichever country actually) this is best thing to do:

1. ⁠Buy as local for your city, region you can get (support small companies, mom & pop shops, farmers etc)
2. Buy generally Bulgarian stuff to support your own economy
3. Buy EU stuff to support EU economy
4. Buy Canada or any other ally nation stuff to support good relationship
5. Buy from USA, China etc (arguably buy Chinese before american)

Ofc the list is just an example on the thought process, you can also make your own list based on your own convictions

Originally posted on Reddit

Since I’m a more of a tablet user, my daily devices are iPhone and iPad at the moment. I’m using Safari with AdGuard and private relay, but I was thinking of switching to Vivaldi. AFAIK the engine is practically the same and doing so I would also lose private relay and extensions support. I’ve already ditched other Apple apps and switched to EU services on almost everything (also not Apple related) What do you think? What do you use on iOS?

Hi all,

A few years ago (during COVID-19), I played around with a lot of meditation/yoga apps, and finally settled on "Down Dog". Now I wanted to get back into meditation, and almost renewed my down dog subscription, but then remembered that it is US-based.

So I was wondering if you have any suggestions regarding EU-based meditation apps? I searched for alternative on the sites set up for finding EU alternatives, but didn't see any suggestions (will add a few after hearing your inputs).

I have "Meditopia" and "7Mind" on my radar, but before committing to one of them, I wanted to hear about your experiences, and possibly other/better alternatives. In particular, I am looking for an option that allows me to set duration/type/theme flexibly, to use it in different conditions throughout the day.

Would be nice if signatures and edits are possible. Couldnt find one this morning