Version 2 of the European app alternatives. Feel free to share it :)
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I recently discovered Monocles.eu, they are a privacy respecting email, chat (Matrix?), drive (Nextcloud?), social (Mastodon) and translator platform. I'm still forming my opinion, but they look good. In France, there's also the Chatons who propose local alternative hosting of many common services, such as Nextcloud, Mastodon, Matrix, Mattermost, VaultWarden, etc.
I didn't know Soundcloud was European. Been using them for a while, my only complaints are: lack of ability to report much of anything, lack of moderation, and a system that incentivizes poor quality uploads of popular songs to avoid automated detection.
If you let it autoplay after picking a popular song you might get a list of bangers or you might get sped up trash uploads with an unfortunate high pitch tone that I imagine must have been outside of the uploader's hearing range. Occasionally it plays some guy reading phonetic scripts like he's just learning to read for the first time for an hour, but it made it into the list because it's titled after a beatles song.
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It's pretty telling that, as a European, I've literally not heard of any of those European alternatives.
Some of these aren't European so I wouldn't feel too bad. PixelFed is American, for example.
Edit: PixelFed is Canadian
I thought Canadian?
Canada is in North America, tbf.
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That doesn't mean that they are subfunctional though.
It tells more about you. Deezer, Soundcloud, DeepL and Bolt are pretty popular globally.
Last time I checked ecosia gets it's search queries from Bing, just a heads up. Other than that I'd say it's really solid.
There is Mojeek that is based in UK and have an own search index and web crawler. I wouldn't recommend it. Mojeek.com
Just wait for this https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/
I'd suggest adding waze on there to be replaced with tomtom amigo as an alternative Also infomaniak as an email alternative You're missing Google Drive -> Filen or Infomaniak
Edit: To clarify, I'm talking about REPLACING waze WITH Tomtom Amigo because waze is google. Seems like that wasn't clear in the original message.
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely something for the next iteration of the infographic but I will make sure to add it to the database asap.
waze was acquired by Google in 2013
That is the point of placing it in the "needs to be replaced" part?
oh, right. My bad!
This is missing Spotify and TomTom unless I am missing something
Thanks for the feedback. It is not supposed to be a complete list. It's a start. You can find more alternatives in our database: https://buy-european.net/
One more request then! If appreciate it is your not put text everywhere without additional information. For example the AI filler on the browser page is just noise. Is rather only have the list than contract filters:
""" There are several compelling reasons to opt for European web browsers. These browsers not only prioritize user privacy and data protection but also foster innovation and support local technology ecosystems. """
Thanks for the project by the way!
Thanks for the feedback! We decided to go for it as we want to make sure that the database is not specifically designed for tech-savvy people. We want to give basic information to make the move to different solutions accessible and easy to understand for everyone.
Peertube has this fediverse problem. You google it, go to the webpage and instead of getting a list of promoted videos, you get an explanation of what it is and a manual on how to actually join, starting with „select a pot“. You then get to search the list of pots that all have like 10 viewers and 5gb upload limit. I stopped at this point.
That being said, i really would like an European youtube alternative, but not off the „provide your own hardware“ kind.
Exactly my problem why I'm not really getting into Lemmy either, same with mastodon. The whole decentralization standing in the middle of it all is just annoying.
Also yeah, Peertube did not even look like a competitor at all. Same with Threema with it costing 6 euros to use
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Joinpeertube.org doesn’t have the best onboarding, but take a look at the pinned post at [email protected] for a few good servers to choose from.
Thank you
Edit: this is much more helpful than the website
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Organic Maps ftw.
Isn't mapy.cz just an OSM wrapper, but proprietary?