I’m slowly ditching Google lately. Always on the lookout for better options, so lemme know what you’re using! 👌

  • LEONARD!@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    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)

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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

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        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.

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        US company but it’s not Meta, which is already something. I would not recommend it though, when Matrix exists

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      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.

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        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

        • NewPipe/Tubular (Android, also supports Peertube, media.ccc.de, SoundCloud, Bandcamp)
        • Piped (web, very privacy-friendly)
        • Grayjay (Android and desktop, partially open source, support for many services including PeerTube and Odysee, $10 or guilt-tripping infinite free trial)
        • Revanced as mentioned above
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          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