The IndieWeb blogging platform Micro.blog recently added an option to use a server in the European Union (Germany) instead of the United States. They began with the blogs themselves and then added images and other files. These changes comport with a broader movement to reduce exposure to services hosted in the United States, especially those dominated by or entangled with big tech, which has shown itself eager to cooperate with the lawless impulses of the Trump administration.

I’m not sure if the European option will make much of a practical difference to my particular situation at present. Nonetheless, I’ve made the switch because I like the idea of being more mindful about what services I use and where they are hosted. Doing so matters not only in the current political climate but also given big tech’s longstanding unethical treatment of user data, a circumstance lent more urgency by their development of LLM-based artificial intelligence.