Hello all, Looking for an alternatives to gmail and it’s apps as I’m trying to de-google from their services.
ProtonMail, Tutanota, Self-hosting a mailserver… That’s all that comes to mind right now…
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Even if you do it’s likely you will fuck it up
Even if you don’t, all other providers will blacklist you, and you’ll constantly be fighting for your email to work.
Yeah Proton is super cheap compared and also a lot less Trubble.
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Nextcloud could be of your interest perhaps. It has drive, calendar, contact, messages, photos, and a few things more.
Anything office related from Nextcloud isncrapcas hell though
OnlyOffice integration in Nextcloud is fine.
Never used the office apps in Nextcloud but the other stuff kinda works.
I’m very ensconced in Googles environment. I stopped using google for searching, and I disabled every single tracking feature I could find in Google Maps, and my Android phone.
But I rely on gmail, google docs, task, and G-Drive a ton. I see some great suggestions here for Gmail replacements, but what about replacements for Google Docs and G-Drive?
Proton mail have a cloud storage facility. It is limited amount without a paid subscription though.
G-Drive is the easiest to replace, there are tons of storage options out there.
Google Docs is trickier, of you depend on the “office in your browser” thing. You can self host that, there are no cool options besides that imho. You can just use LibreOffice and sync via the aforementioned cloud space though
I switched to Tutanota (cheapest paid plan) and havnt looked back since.
ProtnMail + ProtonCalendar worked for me. Doc side OnlyOffice seems solid alternative
Try skiff.com. they’re new but similar offerings
Immich self-hosted home or on a VPS for Google Photos
Good painless alternatives:
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Chrome -> Firefox
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Gmail/Calendar> Proton
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Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO’d into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.
Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:
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Google Drive -> Proton
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Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice
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ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.
Less than ideal alternatives:
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Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.
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Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.
Is there anything else you need an alternative to?
I like OpenStreetMap more than Google Maps.
You gotta wait for overture maps alternatives. It is an open map project by the linux foundation, microsoft, tomtom and some other companies. Its main purpose is to provide a competent competitor to google maps since these companies don’t want to pay google royalties for their map data. It can also help osm since it is under an open license i think. It is still in alpha though at the time of writing this…
I switched to Kagi search engine about 3 weeks ago and so far I love it! I’m never going back.
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.
Unfortunately Google bought Waze some years ago. The feature sets are being incorporated into Google Maps.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-brings-waze-and-maps-teams-together-in-cost-cutting-move/
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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
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