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title: 'Putting some distance between our users and the new US administration'
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caption: 'An image by Johannes Plenio'
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date: '2025-04-01'
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intro: 'FreeSewing version 4 warAn image from Pixabay'
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authors: 1
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---
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With everything that is going on right now — _gestures vaguely in the
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direction of the current US administration_ — it's tempting to throw up our
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hands in despair, spend our days doomscrolling, or just check out somehow.
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Unfortunately, that's not going to cut it for we are way into uncharted
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territory here.
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To put some distance between our users and the new US administration,
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we have moved everything that is potentially sensitive to brand
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new infrastructure in Europe, using European companies, rather than US-based
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companies. Specifically:
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- We've moved our backend systems from DigitalOcean in the US to Scaleway in Germany
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- We've moved our software repositories from GitHub in the US to Codeberg in Germany
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- We've moved our transactional email service from AWS in the US to Scaleway in Germany (ongoing)
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- We have put a de-facto freeze on our Instagram account, and recommend you
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follow our accounts on [freesewing.social](https://freesewing.social/), our
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Mastodon instance hosted in Germany.
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- We have re-visited our choice to use Discord as the de-facto place for the
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FreeSewing community, and have instead decided that here too we would step
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both to safeguard the data of our users, as well as embrace the open web. So
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we've created a forum for the FreeSewing community (more on that below).
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- While freesewing.org will continue to work as expected, we will henceforth
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use freesewing.eu as our main domain name.
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All of these changes are already active, although some need some time to
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percolate to completion.
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None of this will impact you as a user of the site. So, you may find this
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overkill. But people trust us with their data, and we feel a moral
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obligation to safeguard that data even from a potential adversarial
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administration in the US.
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