The full guide to switching from big US tech to supporting more ethical and EU-based companies! (Redone with OSs added)

The creator mods !PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world , as you can see on the footer

Hope they'll do a spreadsheet app too eventually

This community (!PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world) isn't really used for anything else so the previous posts about specific topics are easy to see. They don't necessarily have many comments but it might help you find other places these images posted to.

It's too bad there are so many communities where this stuff is posted to, real downside of federated content if you ask me because it's so easy to miss content added in the comment of a duplicate post you never see.

Feel free to create them!

Yacy. P2P search engine. Well can used local only too. Crawl the web at your own.

@Madbrad200

IDK Floorp, and I have limited experience w/Zen.

I have tested and used every other one on your list.

They are all pretty good, considering the current state of the Internet.

My daily drivers are Librewolf and Vivaldi.

Bruce Schneier says Vivaldi is secure enough for him.

@Blaze @ueeu

Ecosia also have a desktop browser. It’s basically ungoogled chrome with a green default theme. You can also change the search engine to something else

@VolumetricShitCompressor

I've been a paid subscriber since they were born.

They are very good, particularly the all-in-one. Lotta good stuff bundled into a subscription.

They are, however, drifting in the "TechBros" direction — or at least, their CEO is.

Still a great product today, and it may stay that way for decades. But, tentatively, I smell the waft of enshittification.

@Blaze

Use it for years and have nothing to complain about. Well, if you have a custom domain with ä,ö, or ü then it gets translated into gibberish. Still works but doesn't look pretty.

E-Mail app works as expected. I receive mails and can send them but I'm not a power user who expect any great features.

Calendar works as well. Share it with other proton user and also with an external person. The external can't create events for us in the shared calendar but that wasn't a problem so far, i just did it when we had an event.

Cloud storage is fine too. I don't use the desktop client but I know there is one for Windows. The upload in the Browser works well and sharing files or folders with externals works with an easy link as you might know it from Google drive.

VPN is also as expected. Huge range of IP's so you will always find one which isn't banned by your streaming service or other website. Hadn't any leaks yet while torrenting.

Hadn't any contact with the support since setting it up but then it was fast and helpful as far as i remember. As Visonary account i got the priority support so I can't say how representative that is for the regular support.

@VolumetricShitCompressor @Blaze honestly even just the android email client is somewhat slow, and doesn't allow downloading emails to save them locally AFAIK. I respect the whole encryption thing, and I know we're comparing to enshittified services, but there has to be something better out there.

Edit: see below maybe this will improve in the next couple of months.

@VolumetricShitCompressor

Technically speaking, it's good. But 2 questions:

Do you need end-to-end encrypted emails and cloud storage?
If not, you may find cheaper alternatives (if cost is a thing for you). :)

@VolumetricShitCompressor @Blaze I heard good things. However I don't like that their mail system is a walled garden due to their e2e encryption. You cannot use POP3 or IMAP with default clients like Thunderbird, at least not without running a bridge.

@VolumetricShitCompressor What kills it for me is the lack of IMAP/POP/SMTP support. I realise this is at odds with the E2E encryption, but honestly I find that portability more valuable than E2E. E2E in email is kinda overrated unless both parties are using PGP or something I think, and even then it's not necessary on a provider level.

I would also look into allegations of the creator supporting Trump before considering it again (saying this neutrally as I haven't verified it myself yet).

OpenOffice is wildly outdated. LibreOffice was started from a copy of OpenOffice and is under continuous development.

They actually have an issue currently because OpenOffice refuse to take down their website and people keep downloading this piece of old software with the consequences that brings (security bugs, putting people off free software etc.

More info if you're interested: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong or embarrassingly out of date. LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice back when Oracle bought Sun because their trademark lawyers were all like "Screw you, we own 'OpenOffice' now" to the open source community. Then Oracle realised that owning OpenOffice wasn't all that valuable when your company's reputation in the open source community is that of Oracle's, so gave it to Apache. OpenOffice seems to still have some life, but I think LibreOffice is the one most developers and users have stuck with.

Firefox used to let you self-hosted the account sync. They changed the method they used a few years back and it wasn't backwards compatible, so I stopped self hosting, but they might still have that option.