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Several excellent applications currently offer comprehensive alternatives to Google services. What are your preferred applications at this time? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] [S] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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)

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why recommend Telegram when, arguably, it's no better than WhatsApp?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Instead of using YouTube, use PeerTube

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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
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