[franciscop]

In Spain there are alternative sites to some of the bigger more social ones. A big one ~10 years back was Tuenti, which copied and then died because of Facebook. But there are sites that are still alive and thrilling:

Newspapers: all over the place, but specially big are https://www.marca.com/ and https://as.com/

There are of course a bunch of local startups, like Glovo, Lola Market, etc.

https://www.meneame.net/ - A Reddit alternative

https://www.forocoches.com/ - Somewhere between Reddit and 4chan

For almost everything else we use the US companies: Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, etc.

For Engineering, there's a bunch of Slack groups in different cities where you can talk (like a distributed Hacker News).