I’m working on degoogling and moving away from major tech companies. I’m really curious what others here are using instead — especially for everyday tools and services.

What do you use for things like:

1.Email 2.Cloud storage / file sync 3.Maps & navigation 4.Search engine 5.Web browser 6.Calendar 7.Contacts management 8.Notes / to-do lists 9.Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.) 10.Messaging / chat 11.Video calling 12.Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news 13.Music streaming / podcast app 14.Video streaming / YouTube alternative 15.Password manager 16.VPN / DNS / Firewall 17.Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs) 18.App store / APKs 19.Photo backup / gallery 20.Weather 21.Smart assistant (if any) 22.Anything else you’ve replaced?

Would love to hear about your setup — both what works well and any trade-offs you’ve had to make. Always looking for better FOSS or privacy-friendly alternatives

  • Limcon
    0•21 hours ago

    1. Protonmail

    2. None

    3. Organic maps/gnome maps

    4. Searxng

    5. Librewolf/Fennec

    6. Fossify calendar/gnome calendar

    7. Fossify contacts

    8. Fossify notes

    9. Libreoffice/overleaf

    10. Whatsapp (everyone uses it, so yeah :/)

    11. Sometimes discord

    12. Lemmy

    13. Spotify on the browser

    14. Only YouTube :/

    15. KeepassXC/KepassDX

    16. Yearly plan of nextdns (really recommend)

    17. Wanting to use lineageos

    18. Droid-ify/Aurora store/pacman

    19. Fossify gallery

    20. KDE weather/gnome weather

    21. None

    22. I think it didn’t use almost anything from google, so idk