It's contacts syncing that I'm stuck on. Hoping to do something with a box running OMV but I've never come across anything so simple as Google Contacts π
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Maybe after this!
Since you included decentralized solutions like Peertube, maybe add SearXNG instances for searches ?
Hmm...Peertube was so easy for me to search and useβI think a lot of people wouldn't even know it's decentralizedβbut the SearXNG website is much more complicated. I'm looking for non-Google products that are easy for the average, non-tech person. Think SearXNG would work?
All they need to know is basically "Just pick an instance close to you and be done, and if it ever stops working well just pick another", which is the same thing as when creating an account on the Fediverse except that instances come and go a lot more.
So it would depends entirely on whether they can find the list of public instances easily... which is admittedly a problem π
You're right about the website, there is a link to the list of public instances on https://docs.searxng.org/ but it's a bit drowned amidst all the other stuff. If I was a regular user I would take one look at the website and run away really fast.
The Wikipedia page on SearXNG does link it, in the section about instances, but I'm not sure how many people would check the wikipedia page rather than the website
As a software dev... im still too stupid to use searxng. Guess its more of a "If its not that easy I wont go further learning it".
Maybe it was a lot of features missing that I missed from Duckduckgo.
OK, I'm glad it's not just me. :D
nah With all respect, as a proton user, proton docs sucks ass. but that may change in the future
In the map area, I have been trying all of the proposed alternatives but ended up using Magic Earth as my main alternative on Android. For walking, I use OsmAnd+.
Thanks, I'll check out Magic Earth!
Not listing Organic Maps is a travesty. Possibly mention Immich, though I see you're going more for SaaS and not really self hosted
Yes, this is definitely more for beginners (like myself. :) I will check out Organic Maps and maybe add them in, thanks!
If you try Organic Maps yourself, try using Sherpa Onnx TTS with it. It's a great open source match and really makes the experience of navigation top tier
Thanks!
Organic Maps and OpenStreetMap should be listed as map alternatives. Mullvad Leta is a recently popular private search engine.
Google isn't inherently bad; they are bad for privacy but good for security. For that reason, Chromium-based browsers such as Vanadium, Trivalent, or Brave Browser are still good alternatives to Google Chrome even though Chromium (which is the open source base for Chromium-based browsers) is developed by Google.
Also: the "T" in PeerTube should be capitalized.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! If there was one browser from my list you'd replace with Vanadium, which would it be?
Epic, only because I've never heard of it so it probably isn't recommended often. I should note that Vanadium is only available on Android and is very difficult to install if you don't use GrapheneOS. Trivalent is only available for a small subset of Linux distros (and comes preinstalled on secureblue). Brave Browser is cross-platform and recommended by GrapheneOS as an alternative to Vanadium if you want specific features Vanadium lacks.
Thanks! Oh yes, I knew that...I use GrapheneOS myself. I'll check these others out.
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Open source licensing, offline-only usability, and self-hostable are the only important criteria to me, and they are not listed here.
Yes, I'd say this is for beginnersβsay, my momβwho are heavily in the Google ecosystem and don't know how to get out. Maybe I should change the focus away from privacy, since Google has many other issues besides privacy that made me leave.
For news I would advice using the newstool MiniFlux.
MiniFlux
That looks awesome...but also complicated. I'm looking for things that, say, my mom could figure out. (She can't understand how to copy/paste, but would like to leave the Google ecosystem.0 :) Maybe someone should create a similar graphic for more tech-savvy people?
Yeah, rss isn't for everyone.
The capitalization for OsmAnd should be corrected. Please?
Of course! Thanks!
Isn't Grayjay a frontend for YouTube?
Aha! Yes, it is. Any suggestions for non-YouTube video platforms?
Maybe Peertube or Odyssey.
Thanks!
It is. Same as NewPipe but they are using different extraction methods I think.
Nextcloud replaces Photo's, Drive and docs.
And more
Oh, perfect!
Grr, I'm trying to sign up for an account to try it out and it keeps failing! I'll try again later, it sounds even better than I thought.
I see Ground News recommended all the time but for some reason i cannot trust it, idk why
I mean it's heavily advertised by YouTubers. And basically everything that sponsors YouTube videos is a scam.
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