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Several excellent applications currently offer comprehensive alternatives to Google services. What are your preferred applications at this time? (lemmy.world)

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I'm slowly ditching Google lately. Always on the lookout for better options, so lemme know what you're using! 👌

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected]
My current progress:
Gmail and calendar ➡️ @[email protected] some issues with UI and performance, but overall happy.
Browser ➡️ Zen (Firefox fork)
Storage ➡️ 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 :bocchi_wiggle:
Chat: pretty much everything with no consensus. :dumpsterkun: Attempting to use matrix/signal/xmpp more.

Still room for improvement with text/voice/video chat being the big current struggle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Check out the list of channels here: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My YouTube alternative: still YouTube, but I screw them out of ad revenue with a dedicated account and third party apps

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Odysee and peertube, best instance on peertube is framatube :))

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Not really. Framatube.org doesn’t allow registration. You should check out the pinned post at [email protected] about PeerTube platforms (instances).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have nebula, but that is paid.

Besides that, not much. Youtube has a way to powerful marketposition.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nextcloud. Replaced drive, contacts, calendar, and their office. Basically all their groupware stuff with addituonal functionality. Davx5 on android to sync to nextcloud.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Gmail and maps are my last hold outs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Magic Earth is a decent alt for navigation.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (20 children)

Can anyone here legit write a list for that for me please (◕‿◕)?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I find that lists like this are often on GitHub, so it's worth adding that site to your search

Here's an example by Tycrek

Edit: found another by Pluja

You'll see overlap on the lists for good reason

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Highly recommend Tuta instead of proton.

Proton has removed themselves from Mastodon after one of their heads sucked off trump and the Republican Party.

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