Hello all, Looking for an alternatives to gmail and it’s apps as I’m trying to de-google from their services.

  • shapis@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Good painless alternatives:

    • Chrome -> Firefox

    • Gmail/Calendar> Proton

    • Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO’d into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.

    Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:

    • Google Drive -> Proton

    • Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice

    • ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.

    Less than ideal alternatives:

    • Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.

    • Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.

    Is there anything else you need an alternative to?

    • forrgott@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I use an app called Waze for maps, but I don’t know if it’s dependent on Google api in the background or not.

      • shapis@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I love the idea of osmand. But it’s not a substitute for maps at all ATM sadly. Im fairly confident that if I tried to use it to navigate somewhere in my city I’d die.

        I’ll check immich tho.

        Just checked it out. It’s self hosted stuff. Most of the suggestions I had up there were low barrier of entry and high privacy gains.

        Self hosting is amazing. I have a server myself. But it’s not something worth suggesting to people just starting to degoogle.

        Edit trying the map some more and might be worth an actual fair try. Thank you