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I'm slowly ditching Google lately. Always on the lookout for better options, so lemme know what you're using! 👌
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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The graphic format doesn't do much for those looking to learn, if I don't already know the non-google icon or app this doesn't help. I understand the point of the post is to drive discussion but if the whole broader goal is to help people switch listing it out in text or labeling the icons at least would make it as useful as the other breakdowns we often see here that have lists by app/category are more useful.
Can anyone here legit write a list for that for me please (◕‿◕)?
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)
Why recommend Telegram when, arguably, it's no better than WhatsApp?
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook which is reason enough to make a move.
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.
US company but it's not Meta, which is already something. I would not recommend it though, when Matrix exists
Saudi company iirc. Which I guess is basically the same thing
The headquarters are in the UAE, not Saudi Arabia. Shareholders I think are from Russia, the UAE, the US
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.
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.
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.
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
The problem with many of these apps is that when you go looking for them on fdroid they are not there. Example in the above list is YouTube Revanced.
Instead of using YouTube, use PeerTube
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
I can recommend TubeSync, it’s a self hosted service to schedule regular download of selected content from YouTube. You can integrate it easily with Plex
I find that lists like this are often on GitHub, so it's worth adding that site to your search
Here's an example by Tycrek
Edit: found another by Pluja
You'll see overlap on the lists for good reason
Legendary 🙌👏
Awesome Privacy looks goog. Need to explore.