Several excellent applications currently offer comprehensive alternatives to Google services. What are your preferred applications at this time?
Several excellent applications currently offer comprehensive alternatives to Google services. What are your preferred applications at this time?
I'm slowly ditching Google lately. Always on the lookout for better options, so lemme know what you're using! ๐
Email -> Runbox
Browser -> Vivaldi (also has a calendar and email client)
Messaging -> Signal
Photos/Drive/Docs -> Jotta
Notes -> Justnote
The graphic format doesn't do much for those looking to learn, if I don't already know the non-google icon or app this doesn't help. I understand the point of the post is to drive discussion but if the whole broader goal is to help people switch listing it out in text or labeling the icons at least would make it as useful as the other breakdowns we often see here that have lists by app/category are more useful.
Can anyone here legit write a list for that for me please (โโฟโ)?
TickTick is Chinese and Nobody should use it. They have full access to your calendar, todo lists and so on. Donโt organize your life in a Chinese owned app.
My replacements
- Gmail -> Proton Mail
- Chrome -> Firefox
- Google Photos -> Ente Photos
- Google Drive -> Proton Drive, Filen
- YouTube -> YouTube Revanced
- WhatsApp -> Signal
- Google Keep -> Joplin
- Google Docs -> LibreOffice
- Translate -> DeepL
- Gmail -> Posteo
- Chrome -> LibreWolf
- Photos -> rsync (I donโt trust Discord-only communites)
- Drive -> rsync / VCSs
- WhatsApp -> XMPP
- Keep -> What?
- Docs -> Text editor / LibreOffice
- Google Translate -> Yandex Translate (FOSS options do not generally support Eastern languages)
What is the YouTube alternative? Thatโs what Iโm struggling to find. I found PeerTube but couldnโt find much Iโd like to watch.
ETA: I like videos like Veritasium and VSauce, Tom Scott, those kinds of things.
Odysee and peertube, best instance on peertube is framatube :))
Not really. Framatube.org doesnโt allow registration. You should check out the pinned post at !peertube@lemmy.wtf about PeerTube platforms (instances).
Check out the list of channels here: !peertube@lemmy.wtf
I'm pretty sure the image put YouTube revanced. However, you could try NewPipe if you don't want microg
My YouTube alternative: still YouTube, but I screw them out of ad revenue with a dedicated account and third party apps
That's definitely a good first step. I'd support peertube as much as possible to really hurt YouTube in the content whenever possible for the future.
You have nebula, but that is paid.
Besides that, not much. Youtube has a way to powerful marketposition.
I know not everyone can do it, but $300 for a lifetime Nebula subscription was great. Do wish more people moved over though.
If only my uni email was not using gmail..
well, you can still use k9mail or thunderbird with a gmail account so at least the client is foss
You're lucky with Gmail. Both my work and school uses Outlook and they ban IMAP, POP3, third-party apps (even those with OAuth2) and also forwarding to another address. So I have to keep another browser or an anonymous window open for one of them, as it takes WAY too long to switch accounts and I'm NOT downloading the official Outlook app.
I once had a Roundcube setup just to access gmail IMAP. It worked great and I did not have to get google tracking cookie.
Nextcloud. Replaced drive, contacts, calendar, and their office. Basically all their groupware stuff with addituonal functionality. Davx5 on android to sync to nextcloud.
This is the Way.
Iโm loving mailbox.org as an alternative to Gmail and Magic Earth as a replacement for Google Maps. Also Iโve been using Ecosia - both the browser and the search engine. Sadly the search engine is just a reskinned bing, but they are involved in the project of making the first real EU based search engine. And once thatโs out Iโm looking forward to using that.
+1 for the mailbox.org, moving to it as Proton's CEO Andy outed himself as a Trump supporter. It's been working fine so far with my anonaddy (moved from simplelogin to...)
I'm using Thunderbird on my phone to see my mailbox.org emails
Gmail and maps are my last hold outs.
I'm using Organic Maps and I like it a lot, but nothing is as feature complete as Google Maps sadly. You always have to make a compromise.
I've been using Magic Earth for navigation, it's not FOSS but still has a lot of strong vouches in these sorts of communities, I believe their privacy policy has been thoroughly vetted if I recall. Works great and does what it needs to do.
For Gmail, I highly recommend Tuta, fantastic service. Paid plans are very affordable. The only thing I wish their client had was more in-depth rule customization but I may just be stupid. Admittedly setting up email forwarding from my gmail accounts has made me a bit lazy in fully switching over every single account from gmail to a tuta address, but I'm getting there.
+1 for magic earth, great for navigation. Organic maps has a more natural UI though I find, when looking for places around you
I really like Here maps. Hosted in Eindhoven, NL (apparently) and has cool stuff like panning when using spoken navigation, so "turn left" comes from the left speaker, which is something I would otherwise struggle with.
Magic Earth is a decent alt for navigation.
Maps and Calendar for me
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My current progress:
Gmail and calendar โก๏ธ @Tutanota@mastodon.social some issues with UI and performance, but overall happy.
Browser โก๏ธ Zen (Firefox fork)
Storage โก๏ธ NAS with mesh VPN
Photos/videos: Jellyfin but also just manual folders. Phone sync with Easy Sync over WebDav. Quite hacky, but it works.
YouTube: SOL โ:bocchi_wiggle:โ
Chat: pretty much everything with no consensus. โ:dumpsterkun:โ Attempting to use matrix/signal/xmpp more.Still room for improvement with text/voice/video chat being the big current struggle.