> How do Americans feel about these regionalistic sentiment based posts here on hacker news?

Mutt here. It’s annoying how feckless the European pushback is. Half of these alternatives either run significant rails through America or are insignificantly small. Meanwhile, our ambassador to Greece is busy selling her sugar daddy’s natural gas to Albania and Bulgaria [1]. (Nobody is even pretending the folks buying her corruption will be prosecuted. Athens held up Russian sanctions to get one of their tycoons a carve-out.)

[1] https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/at-davos-kimberly-guilfo...

I’d bet most of those comments are from self-hating American leftists.

I wish the guy motivating this didn't exist, but I would love for Europe to develop genuinely competitive software products. I don't think it's good even for us Americans that so much software is developed by an American monoculture; we benefit greatly from the existence of Ikea and Toyota.

I believe that having an integrated global community (not just 'the west') is much better for humanity than regional isolationism.

But I don't blame any country for disassociating with the US. Not just because Trump is our president, but more so that we elected him, twice.

Sure got more visible the recent years but the "trend" isn't new.

When sensitive data was a topic even 15 years ago we built European only solutions because America and it's barely existing privacy laws were not to trust. (Built software for government, universities and other companies back then)

From my POV this has nothing to do with orange guy but it's an ongoing trend of benefiting from our customer and data protection laws.

Ideally those are free and open source

Why? I have been using mailbox.org for a few years and I am very happy with it.