• pantherina@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Alternativeto.net

    I dont see the reason for this post 🧅

    Some mixed up categories, half of them proprietary and/or in the US, centralized, etc.

    Some things need centralization, many others dont.

    • Señor Mono@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Read OPs post as a personal success story. We got a lot of alternatives and alternative sites as well as post floating since month.

  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Some of my alternatives to these:

    1. Search: Ecosia has Bing results, Startpage uses Google ones. Both are decent on what they do.
    2. Browser: Firefox and its forks are still good options. Remember, open source is not your enemy.
    3. App store: Aurora uses Play Store’s content (or lack of it), Droid-ify uses F-Droid’s.
    4. Mail, Drive, Password Manager, Gemini: Proton has made questionable actions before (e.g. parts of Lumo are not open-source). I recommend LeChat (Mistral’s AI, european) and selfhosting files if possible (Proton is a good alternative).
    5. Videos: Those suggested use YT’s content. Consider PeerTube (french, federated) for alternative content.
    6. Windows: Linux Mint is Irish, VOID Linux (for the technical users) is Spanish, SUSE Linux Enterprise (or OpenSUSE) is German.
  • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    OrganicMaps (or it’s fork CoMaps, there is some community-drama) is my goto maps app. I even use it to look up opening hours and it mostly delivers.

    • mapleseedfall@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Man, I think the data in indonesia where I live is not too updated. Big problem is I cant just say a place name and it search for address. I always need address

  • STØERENFRIED@feddit.orgEnglish
    134·
    4 days ago

    I’d switch Proton for Tuta, Proton is a Company based in Switzerland so not EU but EFTA, but more concerning: their CEO is a Trump Fan

      • Señor Mono@feddit.orgOPEnglish
        131·
        3 days ago

        I held back because the topic and alternatives were already discussed broadly. Even in the sticky getting started post.

        I wouldn’t opt for Proton services. Currently I’m running on mailbox.org and jottacloud . If I have to use AI I would go with mistral, and for navigation my first try would be CoMaps (car) and OSMand (for hiking). But I must admit that I still need to evaluate CoMaps vs. here more extensively.

        Password container is still strongbox, even though they were sold recently. They also integrate 2FA, so it substitutes authenticater Apps.

        And for youtube I hope for peertube.

        The linux distros are already discussed in the main post. This has a lot to do with personal taste. I’m used to debian based distros, still using Ubuntu on all my servers.

    • kunegis@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      “Books Online”, a Dutch company. But I’d say, don’t replace Amazon with a single other site, but learn to better search for sites that have what you want, depending on the type of product.

    • Novocirab@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Just gave it the first real try today, in the context of (a) understanding some programming topics and (b) finding opticians in my town.

      Kagi is so. much. better than any of the DuckDuckGo, Google, Brave, SearXNG, Startpage, Ecosia, and what not.

      They even have a search mode “Small Web” to show “results that favor noncommercial domains and topics”. Other modes include “Programming”, “Fediverse forums”, “Usenet/Archive”, “Forums” and “Academic” (to be selected under Settings/Search/Lenses).

      And when Kagi accidentally does serve you some bullshit page, the button to block or de-prioritize the website in all future searches is right there. Conversely, one can give high-quality sites a higher priority in the results listings.

      And one can set up regexes to automatically replace links to twitter.com or x.com by xcancel.com, or replace links to reddit.com by old.reddit.com, etc.

      The monthly ~5€ for 300 searches (which I would use mostly for programming tasks while sticking to SearXNG or so for more mundane lookups), or even the ~10€ for unlimited searches, will definitely be worth it.

  • TanteRegenbogen@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Looks like if I deactivate Google Play after getting Aurora Store, some apps stop working and request me to reactivate Google Play. That sucks.