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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 ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿผ

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[โ€“] zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

Very nice initiative!

Here's the official site: https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/

[โ€“] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To your list, I've also switched out:

  • Gmail for mailbox.org
  • Google calendar for calengoo
  • Drive for koofr
  • Netflix for Mubi
  • Google docs for onlyoffice
  • Edit: and chrome for Vivaldi

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 ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] howler@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

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!

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[โ€“] Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] avieshek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Is this like Searx?

[โ€“] cynser@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Good to see some progress

[โ€“] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

Given the natural monopoly nature of search indexing, wouldn't it be better to do this as public financed open source?

[โ€“] vesi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Wonderful News!

[โ€“] Nollij@sopuli.xyz -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

YSK that Ecosia and Qwant (and many others) repackage Bing

[โ€“] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The post is literally about them creating their own index to move away from Bing. This is a utterly useless comment.

[โ€“] dedales@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Qwant has its own indexes and uses Bing to supplement them

[โ€“] Phytobus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Qwant and Ecosia are also developing a fully European search index together. The first versions are expected to be available this summer.

[โ€“] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

Neat! I think I heard about that somewhere

[โ€“] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Still worth it

[โ€“] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could use Mojeek then, they even have a Lemmy presence @mojeek@lemmy.ml.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

They are closed source too.