And at least in here the selection on groceries and other commonly purchased goods doesn’t even have much options from the US. Sure, there’s things like Coca-Cola, but they’re produced domestically too, so it depends on how strictly you want to avoid anything related to USA.

Maybe the most common US originating household item around here is a Briggs & Stratton engine on a lawnmower. And of course CPU’s and GPU’s inside computers and gaming consoles. But there’s just not that many physical products around in the stores you even could buy.

Digital goods are obviously more common as there’s very few actually viable alternatives for Meta, Alphabet, streaming services and so on for your Joe Average.

They already fund a lot of open projects. I would rather they do more of that instead of shoving money down the throat of shitty for profit tech startups. Privacy laws are on track to suffer quite a bit in the next few years so we need more lock-in free infrastructure.

You posted your comment on a platform funded by the EU. Not feddit.org or lemm.ee, but lemmy itself (though as I gather sunaurus himself is getting funds for development, the EU isn’t funding instances, though, just the development).

How many “big tech” companies are just benefiting from network effects and don’t really offer something unique and useful?

Network effects could be spurred from institutional efforts, usually with some incentives.