I think now is a better opportunity than ever to ask. Many are willing to make a jump.

Spot on. Thanks for calling this out.

Once China attacks Taiwan, the China/US relationship will lock up. Trump will then immediately attack Greenland to retain access to rare earths. This is a death spiral.

Europe will be the loser of it all.

We need a perfect alliance with India. It is the only country on Earth that can truly hurt the US - almost all their tech support and IT operations is outsourced to India.

Trade surplus from sold goods.

I think this is not correct. This gold was never on German soil. It is the result of trade surplus of sold goods, exchanged from USD to gold.

What you say is true however for German gold in England and at one point France.

Thanks for sharing. That’s a scary read.

That’s also an option of course. However, personally I wanted an option entirely outside of US big tech, so that ruled out GitHub.

Codeberg could be an option, but I didn’t want to abuse their service for private, non-oss needs.

Nextcloud + regular filesystem sync works great. I am just storing my vault in a synced folder.

But you would need to host it yourself if you cannot pay for a service like Hetzner Storage Share.

Can we somehow see the actual tarrifs on different goods? The aggregate number doesn’t help that much in understanding the impact and ripple effects.

Does anyone know what the top item is per country above? I guess the number is probably just a dollar weighted average as there are probably different tariffs on different goods.

Why is Canada not on the list?

I am more worried that they try to block us out, but I get your point :-D

Just deleted my account as well.

Thanks all. I think I made a decision now.

• Stick to Signal
• Drop BlueSky
• Adopt Mastodon, Matrix, and Threema to help build the network effects there.

Do you have a suggestion for a mastodon server? I was looking for

• European server
• Not hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and no usage of Clourflare or Fastly
• Still allows sign-ups
• More than 500 users or older than 1 year

And I got hardly any results.

In what sense are they exposing it? Do they think they get more engagement on reddit?

Does the app support showing pictures by their GPS locations?

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