The #FollowFriday tradition is a popular social media practice that has spread to various platforms, including Mastodon. The idea of recommending interesting accounts to follow every Friday started on Twitter in 2009. You can use the hashtag #FollowFriday or just #FF. This idea quickly became popular and spread to other social media platforms, including Mastodon it isn’t different.
Our #FollowFriday posts are a great way to suggest people follow great companies, non-profits, founders and open-source projects that have created and built brilliant European alternatives to foreign products and services.
We propose a new theme on a weekly basis, and to that effect here is a list of accounts to be followed on Mastodon for those interested in email providers and search engines:
✉️ E-mail providers:
1- Tuta @Tutanota 🇩🇪
2- Iroco @iroco 🇫🇷
3- Runbox @runbox 🇳🇴
4- Mailbox.org @mailbox_org 🇩🇪
5- Eclipso @eclipso 🇩🇪
6- StartMail @startmail 🇳🇱
7- Mailo @hellomailo 🇫🇷
8- Hostpoint @hostpoint 🇨🇭
9- Proton @protonprivacy 🇨🇭
10- Mailfence @mailfence 🇧🇪
🔎 Search engines:
1- MetaGer @MetaGer
2- Swisscows @Swisscows 🇨🇭
3- Leta (by Mullvad) @mullvadnet 🇸🇪
4- Marginalia @marginalia 🇸🇪
5- ZoTop (by Zaclys) @zaclys 🇫🇷
6- Monocles @monocles 🇩🇪
7- Startpage @StartpageSearch 🇳🇱 🇺🇸
8- OohDirectory @OohDirectory 🇬🇧
9- Feedle @feedle 🇩🇪 (blogs and podcasts)
10- Mojeek @Mojeek 🇬🇧
11- Qwant @Qwant 🇫🇷 (inactive)
@ueeu Thank you so much for including us! We feel like we should clarify, though, that we do not have any U.S. owners or servers…that would be our sister company, @StartpageSearch 😅
@ueeu Thank you so much for mentioning us as well! We not only provide e-mail but also domain and web hosting services. So if you want it all in one place, we will gladly help! 🚀