[HacktionLab] Alternatives to big tech for personal use?

[Patrice Riemens]

Hi All,

Being on puscii, which is a very small, hackers run ISP, I do not use riseup, but many friends are - to their full satisfaction. It's a bit the 'Isp of records' ;-) in some demographies. That is is US- based with all the consequences does not seem to be a drawback. But if you are paranoid about anything US related (aren't we all? ;-) I always advise Sswitzerland-based protonmail - in conjunction with an own mailer, type Thunderbird (here's a piece of 'do as I say, not as I do advice  ;-) Protonmail free has a rather limited storage.

Cheers to all & best wishes for a rather anxiogenous 2026!
p+2D!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Clemson" <Chris.Clemson at GoGreenIT.net>
To: hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org
Sent: Friday, 26 December, 2025 15:23:55
Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] Alternatives to big tech for personal use?

Hi!

Have you tried https://riseup.net/?

I've not used it, but it has been around for a while.

There's a list of disroot-like services here, which might help: 
https://alternativeto.net/software/disroot/

Let us know if you try any of them.

On 24/12/2025 11:03, brentc wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'd love to find something like Google suite that isn't Google. I use 
> alternatives for more activist stuff but keep coming back to Google 
> for general use. Any (constructive) thoughts or pointers?
>
> I guess looking for something in between weak activist offerings and 
> big tech. If something like a non-profit non-US Mozilla offered an 
> awesome product, that would be lovely, but I don't see it.
>
> Specifically, for me, I need the typical 'personal productivity' 
> services- email, todo lists, calendars, drive/docs/sheets with decent 
> editing and features, and sharing (with people who don't have an 
> account). I'd rather not use multiple services, want uptime and 
> backups handled, and if it's green hosted and a non-profit oriented, 
> bonus. It should probably be UK/EU region. I don't want to host my own 
> stuff. I'll pay for the right thing. Honestly, for personal use, I 
> probably want some balance of encryption/security with features, 
> noting I'll have to trust the provider anyway.
>
> I've tried disroot. It's quite good to be fair, but still limited 
> feature-wise, and more worryingly, couldn't get issues sorted with 
> support (which is a common thing with smaller outfits in my 
> experience, that I don't want to deal with). I don't like protonmail. 
> There's mailbox.org but tradeoffs are they're a company albeit seem 
> alright, and their website gives me the creeps.
>
> Maybe I ask for the currently impossible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brent
>
>
>
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