cross-posted from: https://feddit.dk/post/10934750
Slowly beginning to use European alternatives for the following. See the list below.
I figured it was a good start to all the new ones around here: Google -> Qwant Apple Music -> Qobuz ChatGPT -> Me Chat Twitter/X -> Mastodon
And of course: Reddit -> Lemmy
I will update this list as I continue 👌🏼
20 Comments
teardownthewalls@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
To your list, I've also switched out:
No complaints so far, they don't all have exactly the same functions as the products I replaced, but they very much do the job and I'm happy overall.
Koofr and mailbox also respond rapidly to tech help requests 👍
howler@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
I've been using Mailbox.org for 3 years and it's great, but for me my best European cloud discovery was Koofr. I've been using them for 6 years now? And I never, ever had a problem
teardownthewalls@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Yep would've switched to koofr ages ago but I've been happy with the Google drive experience until I wasn't...
Koofr is great, very user friendly!
zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 1y
Very nice initiative!
Here's the official site: https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/
Blaze@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1y
Welcome to Lemmy @Magnusloev@feddit.dk !
RejZoR@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
pCloud is excellent storage service from Switzerland. Same with ProtonMail.
DuckDuckGo and Signal are really the only American things I still use. Might give Qwant a try, but I really like how DuckDuckGo has served me all these years.
Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Ecosia also got a browser ! But not sure how good it is.
If you want EU based browsers It's Vivaldi , ecosia , and Mullvad browser.
Yes they sadly are based on Chrome or gecko but ladybird browser still takes a while
avieshek@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Is this like Searx?
cynser@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
Good to see some progress
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Is ecosia going to become actually decent? I used it for like 4 years but then tried DuckDuckGo and the results were just a lot better. I like the idea of ecosia, but I'm not willing to put up with that low of quality of search results.
1yjgjmmt5988@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Given the natural monopoly nature of search indexing, wouldn't it be better to do this as public financed open source?
vesi@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y
Wonderful News!
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · -2 pts · 1y
YSK that Ecosia and Qwant (and many others) repackage Bing
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 1y
The post is literally about them creating their own index to move away from Bing. This is a utterly useless comment.
dedales@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 1y
Qwant has its own indexes and uses Bing to supplement them
Phytobus@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Qwant and Ecosia are also developing a fully European search index together. The first versions are expected to be available this summer.
match@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1y
Neat! I think I heard about that somewhere
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Still worth it
flamingos@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
You could use Mojeek then, they even have a Lemmy presence @mojeek@lemmy.ml.
atro_city@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
They are closed source too.