> It would be an even better move to allow those in Europe or indeed the rest of the world to also benefit.

Those initiatives are usually open source. It's just that many times, each country wants to make their own. But it's still better than staying with the TooBigTech monopolies.

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mickael-kerjean 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

> It's just that many times, each country wants to make their own

This hits hard. I'm a French citizen who made an open source alternative to Dropbox [1], I would have never thought my own government to attempt competing in my niche. I did contact the people at DINUM and it seems they are more interested in making their own than contributing to existing projects they don't fully control

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

	▲	elashri 31 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		On a side note. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for filestash, it is really a high quality software piece that solved a lot of pain points for me.
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		That's not always true. Tchap is a fork of Matrix.