Moving all the online services I use to the EU will definitely be much harder than I anticipated, for many reasons. So, I decided to take the small steps I can already deal with.

The Mastodon instance I regularly post to is already in Europe. As for #Obsidian, I run my own syncing service between my home and office. A few months ago, I moved my Supernote notes to a server in Europe. And because I was already working on the migration of my site back to Micro.blog, I decided to move it to a server in Europe and also switch the domain from .com to .eu.

In case you don’t know…

According to Wikipedia, “The .com domain was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by Verisign, and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law.”

As for .eu, it is “based on Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 and was launched in December 2005. EURid, a Belgian not-for-profit organisation, manages the .eu TLD registry.” Source

I don’t believe small attitudes like this make any difference in the grand scheme of things, but they definitely make me feel better, and this matters a lot.