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

  • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    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.

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        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)

        • @dev_null@lemmy.ml
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          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.

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              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.

              • @rpl6475@lemmy.ml
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                Under US jurisdiction which at the moment is uncertain grounds. It’s better than Google by far, but not a solution to be settled on in the long term.

          • @Delamcode@lemm.ee
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            I’ve heard that Ente has fewer features (haven’t personally tried it though) and self hosting isn’t that bad… Immich can have bugs sometimes but never has broken anything majorly (once timelines broke, was fixed in the next version, nothing ever was deleted because of a bug) since I’ve been using it.

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              Yeah self-hosting is not hard if you are technical, but the average person won’t even entertain the idea.

              I haven’t tried Immich, I’m currently happy with Ente, and I’m planning to move to Immich (and see how it compares) once it’s declared stable by the developers.

          • @Delamcode@lemm.ee
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            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.

          • Doug Holland
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            020 days ago

            WhatsApp is owned by Facebook which is reason enough to make a move.

          • @bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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            US company but it’s not Meta, which is already something. I would not recommend it though, when Matrix exists

          • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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            020 days ago

            You can’t really replace YouTube’s massive library yourself, the best you can do is avoid it but that’s hard too. As for the frontend, there is

            • NewPipe/Tubular (Android, also supports Peertube, media.ccc.de, SoundCloud, Bandcamp)
            • Piped (web, very privacy-friendly)
            • Grayjay (Android and desktop, partially open source, support for many services including PeerTube and Odysee, $10 or guilt-tripping infinite free trial)
            • Revanced as mentioned above
            • nomad
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              020 days ago

              I can recommend TubeSync, it’s a self hosted service to schedule regular download of selected content from YouTube. You can integrate it easily with Plex

      • Donn
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        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