LEONARD!Several excellent applications currently offer comprehensive alternatives to Google services. What are your preferred applications at this time?
pdxfedThe 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?
bloubzUS company but it’s not Meta, which is already something. I would not recommend it though, when Matrix exists
Saudi company iirc. Which I guess is basically the same thing however
No, the headquarters are in the UAE, not Saudi Arabia. Shareholders I think are from Russia, the UAE, the US
Doug HollandWhatsApp is owned by Facebook which is reason enough to make a move.
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)
IgilqInstead of using YouTube, use PeerTube
ChaoticNeutralCzechYou 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
nomadI 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
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.
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.
Yeah self-hosting is not hard if you are technical, but the average person won’t even entertain the idea.
Yep, fully agree. Honestly the only reason Immich isn’t perfect for me, is because my duckdns goes down all the time, and I run it on an old MacBook in a different country (at a friend’s)… it’s not exactly the most reliable way to host it
rpl6475Unfortunately Ente is American so still has similar issues
Issues like what? It’s an open source project that you self-host, worth end to end encryption. I don’t see how it compares to sending your photos in plain view to Google.
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.
Your own server where you self-host it isn’t under US jurisdiction. It is quite expreme to be wary of open source projects just because the current main developers are based in the US. Sure, there is no guarantee Ente will remain good in the long term, but then there is neither for Immich.
The problem with many of these apps is that when you go looking for them on fdroid they are not there. Example in the above list is YouTube Revanced.