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Is there a European alternative for this website?
by retired 9mo ago
Is there a European alternative for this website?
- noodlebird 9mo agotechposts.eu i reckon
- timeon 9mo agoSeems to be US-hosted.
- culi 9mo agoWhat makes you say that? It was explicitly created as an EU alternative to HN by a person from the Netherlands. They posted about it on HN a few days ago. I haven't found anything public about where its hosted
- timeon 9mo agohttps://hosting-checker.net/websites/techposts.eu https://hosting-checker.net/websites/techposts.eu or: whois "$(ping -c 1 techposts.eu | awk -F'[()]' '/PING/{print $2}')"
- FireInsight 9mo agoFly.io probably serves in on the edge, and so it always appears to be near the request origin.
- timeon 9mo agoI was probably not clear in my original comment. My point, in context of this thread, was that it is hosted in US-based company. So things like Cloud Act still apply.
- breezykoi 9mo agojournalduhacker.net (in french)
- drnick1 9mo agoThe irony is that European alternatives are still in English, when no European country (since the departure of the U.K. from Europe) actually uses that language.
- s_dev 9mo agoIreland and Malta. You would be shocked at how well certain nationalities like the Dutch and Swedes speak English.
- palata 9mo ago> You would be shocked at how well certain nationalities like the Dutch and Swedes speak English. Totally. All Northern countries to be fair. And then in my experience at least some Eastern countries (like Slovenia). Really it seems like the South of Europe is a bit weaker in English, my guess being that their native languages are latin and not germanic (so it's further away from English).
- wolvoleo 9mo agoIt's because we don't do dubbing but subtitling. Every foreign TV show or movie becomes a mini language class. The bigger countries do dubbing and it is really noticeable. Also in Holland we'd pride ourselves on speaking foreign languages much more than being proud of our own.
- bradyd 9mo agoThe UK is still in Europe. They didn't move from the continent.
- retired 9mo agoIt has been around 300 million years since the UK drifted away from continental Europe but it is still very much part of it!
- robin_reala 9mo agoThe British isles were still connected to the continent 20k years ago.
- BenoitEssiambre 9mo agoIts founder lives in europe so there's that.
- s_dev 9mo agoI think he means Hacker News rather than EU Alternatives.
- BenoitEssiambre 9mo agoI also mean Hacker News
- badsectoracula 9mo agoPaul Graham lives in UK.
- s_dev 9mo agoThat doesn't make Hacker News European. It is American. Y Combinator is American even if pg is originally British. Stripe is American but its founders are Irish.
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- badsectoracula 9mo agoYeah i know, my response was a clarification that BenoitEssiambre was referring to the founder, not the site itself. My interpretation of the "so there's that" part of the message, was an acknowledgement that Hacker News is hosted in US, but if nothing else the founder is living in UK.
- nxpnsv 9mo agoSomeone should make news.eucombinator.eu…
- fsflover 9mo agoPerhaps Lemmy may count based on distributed ActivityPub protocol with some servers in Europe.