On: Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails

[andy_ppp]

Is anyone building (open source?) G-Suite - I’m honestly tired of paying Google money and I think everyone needs independence.

[FinnKuhn → andy_ppp]

Yes, "Euro-Office" was launched this week. It is a European fork of "OPENOFFICE".

It is open source and supported by Nextcloud, IONOS, Proton, Tuta and more.[1]

I haven't tried it out, bu you can find the documentation on how to host it yourself here: https://euro-office.github.io/documentation/

A more mature alternative would is Nextcloud as it offers a lot more, but setup is reportedly more involved. It does appear to be available for enterprise customers as hosted version as well though: https://nextcloud.com/office/

[1] https://github.com/Euro-Office

[_kb → andy_ppp]

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

[rgblambda → andy_ppp]

Something like nextcloud.com? It's appeared on HN a few times. Some European governments and municipalities have switched to it.

[pedro_caetano → andy_ppp]

Not exactly free as in free beer but Collabora, and their 'Collabora Online' suite fits your description. It's effectively online hosted libre office with a few extras.

[dotcoma → andy_ppp]

Where and how will you host your email service, for example?

[vincnetas → andy_ppp]

to be clear is the "paying" part or "google" part a problem to you?

[valanha → andy_ppp]

Nextcloud+self hosted email

[brador → andy_ppp]

No one made the easy pickings of Facebook clone, Reddit clone or Twitter clone for insane profits. You really think someone will make a gsuite?

The person making project X days are over. The energy and drive is extinguished from humanity. Ambition is all that’s left.

[FinnKuhn → brador]

Facebook made a Twitter (now X) clone (Threads) and has reportedly more users than X now [1]. They have also started a Reddit clone as well now (Forum)[2]. Not sure if that one will be a success as well though, as Reddit isn't loosing users like X is.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-dai... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/meta-quietly-launches-a-ne...

[brador → FinnKuhn]

Reddit was waiting for Digg to have an incident and milked it to billions. Why was there no project waiting for Reddit to have an incident? (It has had many).

[andy_ppp → brador]

These things go in cycles, we’ll be back - or potentially something better will come along.