This guide is weird. It suggests to replace US products by other US products
I think federated vs cetralised should be a classification for social media platforms
I cannot recommend Internxt their software and servers are buggy.
The desktop app (on Linux at least) would give lots of errors and refuse to upload files. In addition some uploaded files were corrupted when trying to download them.
I like their idea and philosophy but at the moment their excecution is quite poor making the product unrealiable.
I prefer Only Office (Desktop Version) to Libre Office, because
- it does not look like over 20 year old Office 2003
- it uses docx and xlsx as native format which makes it easier for noobs
I heared Only Office has some Russian connections. Otherwise it still is Open Source.
@Wrdlbrmpfd @FallenWalnut Why don’t you try Free Office? It has a free tier and it’s German.
The incomplete guide…
Cryptpad, ONLYOFFICE, Fennec, Mullvad Browser, Librewolf, Thunderbird, FairEmail, SimpleX, Lemmy, PeertubeBluesky? Wtf
Profit Share missing for Ecosia.
Is there a European Netflix or Youtube?
I think its called BitTorrent.
SoundCloud always missing wtf???
WTF!!!’
Lol 😂
the legend is incomplete. what’s red? what’s the globe icon? how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?
how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?
The EU flag is used here for the whole Europe (see the top-right corner), but “not majority EU owned” is specifically looking at the EU, which is very confusing. So Vivaldi being Norwegian and Canonical being British stick out.
I will try to answer these, and hope someone corrects any potential innaccuracy:
what’s red?
There is a comment there saying “see deep-dive for details” so the red-highlight caveat is likely explained there.
what’s the globe icon?
My assumption is that icon just indicates Free/Open-Source projects which have no “owning company” (not “based” anywhere), just globally scattered contributors.
how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?
My guess (merely a guess) is that those are run by EU-based companies, but which don’t have a solid policy guaranteeing “majority of shareholders are in the EU” (…?)
I think the hardest part are mobile OS 😔
Beside : eOS, sailfish and postmarket we have a long way…Yes, but it turns out you can do a lot of ‘switching’ even if you can give up on android or iOS straight away. I follesdd this guide for degoogling my Samsung, not done yet but feels like I made some good changes: https://androides.nl/degoogle-guide/
Though large part is already covered by switching services / apps
You do a great job! 👏 Thank you!
Isn’t Waterfox quite slow on the updates?
I’ve been using LibreWolf, but I’ve been meaning to try out Zen
Zen has quite a steep learning curve, especially wjith workspaces and such. It’s a cool concept, but I switched back to Librewolf out of convenience and a leaner ux.
Sadly there’s no librewolf on mobile.
there’s IronFox
• Operating system
OpenSuse👉Here is explained: https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/choosing-your-desktop-linux-distribution
• Messenger
SimplexGreat guide, thanks! Will start converting (where not already through with it).
Maybe someone can help with this topic: Is there any EU-based live map service (including traffic jams and road work and the likes)? I already use OSM but that doesn’t (can’t by design as far as I know) include live information.
Try Here We Go (https://wego.here.com/), it is owned by a bunch of car companies.
Magic earth comes closest I guess. It has live traffic although in my opinion not on par with Google maps. Still, I am using it and am quite satisfied
