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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 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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My current progress:
Gmail and calendar ➡️ @[email protected] some issues with UI and performance, but overall happy.
Browser ➡️ Zen (Firefox fork)
Storage ➡️ NAS with mesh VPN
Photos/videos: Jellyfin but also just manual folders. Phone sync with Easy Sync over WebDav. Quite hacky, but it works.
YouTube: SOL :bocchi_wiggle:
Chat: pretty much everything with no consensus. :dumpsterkun: Attempting to use matrix/signal/xmpp more.

Still room for improvement with text/voice/video chat being the big current struggle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Email -> Runbox

Browser -> Vivaldi (also has a calendar and email client)

Messaging -> Signal

Photos/Drive/Docs -> Jotta

Notes -> Justnote

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Albeit not for everyone, self-hosting is the way to go. Nextcloud is where is at, even with its quirks. Also, instead of going to YT directly, I use RSS to keep up with my channels. In my case, FreshRSS for those and for everything else it applies. Watch them with Freetube.

As far as full on YT replacements? Use Rumble and Odysee as many YT content creators are creating back up channels on those platforms. The point is that YT is going to get even more stupid with the ads so it is great to options.

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