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Steady - A European Platform for Independent Media Crowdfunding

Independent journalism, podcasts, and newsletters depend on financiers that align with their editorial values. Steady, a Berlin-based membership platform, offers a European alternative to Patreon and Substack, built on direct support rather than ad-driven attention.

The AI Resist List - Mapping Global Pushback Against Extractive AI

The main narrative around AI is that its trajectory is inevitable. The AI Resist List, launched in May 2026, documents the worldwide work that already disproves that claim.

FOSS Alternatives - Open Source as Digital Independence

Proprietary tools are used by most of us out of habit rather than conviction. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) offers an alternative for almost every category, exchanging convenience paid with personal data for transparency, data control, and freedom from vendor lock-in.

DI.DAY - Local Meetings for Digital Sovereignty

The infrastructure of our digital everyday life lies largely in the hands of a few large corporations. The Digital Independence Day responds to this with a pragmatic approach: local communities meet up every first Sunday each month to reduce individual big tech dependencies together.

European Alternatives to Big Tech

Which services we use largely determines the jurisdiction under which our data lives. Big Tech benefits from an arrangement in which European users remain nominally protected by GDPR while their data flows through providers bound by non-EU legislation such as the US Cloud Act.

Resist and Unsubscribe - Subscriptions as Political Leverage

Subscriptions are the quietest revenue streams on Big Tech's balance sheets. Resist and Unsubscribe treats them as the most accessible point of political leverage, targeting both subscription-driven tech giants and consumer-facing companies contracting with ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Messenger im Vergleich

Messenger sind heute die grundlegende Infrastruktur privater Kommunikation. Sie sind aber Teil eines digitalen Machtgefüges, das Daten sammelt, Verhalten strukturiert und Abhängigkeiten schafft. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht zentrale Optionen und zeigt, worauf es bei einer souveränen Nutzung ankommt.