Hello all, Looking for an alternatives to gmail and it’s apps as I’m trying to de-google from their services.

  • shapis@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Good painless alternatives:

    • Chrome -> Firefox

    • Gmail/Calendar> Proton

    • Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO’d into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.

    Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:

    • Google Drive -> Proton

    • Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice

    • ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.

    Less than ideal alternatives:

    • Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.

    • Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.

    Is there anything else you need an alternative to?

    • wallmenis@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You gotta wait for overture maps alternatives. It is an open map project by the linux foundation, microsoft, tomtom and some other companies. Its main purpose is to provide a competent competitor to google maps since these companies don’t want to pay google royalties for their map data. It can also help osm since it is under an open license i think. It is still in alpha though at the time of writing this…

      • shapis@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I love the idea of osmand. But it’s not a substitute for maps at all ATM sadly. Im fairly confident that if I tried to use it to navigate somewhere in my city I’d die.

        I’ll check immich tho.

        Just checked it out. It’s self hosted stuff. Most of the suggestions I had up there were low barrier of entry and high privacy gains.

        Self hosting is amazing. I have a server myself. But it’s not something worth suggesting to people just starting to degoogle.

        Edit trying the map some more and might be worth an actual fair try. Thank you

    • forrgott@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I use an app called Waze for maps, but I don’t know if it’s dependent on Google api in the background or not.

  • wallmenis@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    ProtonMail, Tutanota, Self-hosting a mailserver… That’s all that comes to mind right now…