I’m slowly ditching Google lately. Always on the lookout for better options, so lemme know what you’re using! 👌
TickTick is Chinese and Nobody should use it. They have full access to your calendar, todo lists and so on. Don’t organize your life in a Chinese owned app.
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 (◕‿◕)?
My bad.
Gmail -> Proton Mail
Chrome -> Fennec (Firefox fork)
Google Photos -> Immich (Self Hosted)
Google Calendar -> TickTick
Google Drive -> Filen
YouTube -> YouTube Revanced
WhatsApp -> Nekogram (Telegram fork)Why recommend Telegram when, arguably, it’s no better than WhatsApp?
US company but it’s not Meta, which is already something. I would not recommend it though, when Matrix exists
Even if it’s not the best, it’s still better than Meta. Signal is better for privacy but is missing some features (not as powerful group chats, folders only on Android and only client side, no pinned messages, no polls - though if one answer is enough you can use reactions). Matrix is pretty good for that kind of thing.
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook which is reason enough to make a move.
I suggest Ente Photos instead of Immich, if self-hosting is not something for you. It’s also more feature complete, as Immich is still actively being built and bugs are expected.
Unfortunately Ente is American so still has similar issues
Issues like what? It’s an open source project that you can self-host, with end to end encryption. I don’t see how it compares to sending your photos in plain view to Google.
Highly recommend Tuta instead of proton.
Proton has removed themselves from Mastodon after one of their heads sucked off trump and the Republican Party.
What is the YouTube alternative? That’s what I’m struggling to find. I found PeerTube but couldn’t find much I’d like to watch.
ETA: I like videos like Veritasium and VSauce, Tom Scott, those kinds of things.
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.
Check out the list of channels here: [email protected]
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
I once had a Roundcube setup just to access gmail IMAP. It worked great and I did not have to get google tracking cookie.
Is there any advantage of doing that over just using an Email client like Thunderbird or FairEmail?
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.
