I’m working on degoogling and moving away from major tech companies. I’m really curious what others here are using instead — especially for everyday tools and services.

What do you use for things like:

1.Email

2.Cloud storage / file sync

3.Maps & navigation

4.Search engine

5.Web browser

6.Calendar

7.Contacts management

8.Notes / to-do lists

9.Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.)

10.Messaging / chat

11.Video calling

12.Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news

13.Music streaming / podcast app

14.Video streaming / YouTube alternative

15.Password manager

16.VPN / DNS / Firewall

17.Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs)

18.App store / APKs

19.Photo backup / gallery

20.Weather

21.Smart assistant (if any)

22.Anything else you’ve replaced?

Would love to hear about your setup — both what works well and any trade-offs you’ve had to make. Always looking for better FOSS or privacy-friendly alternatives

  • Luffy@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago
    1. Fastmail
    2. My Nas and Syncthing/rsync
    3. Osm throught Osmand and a cheap Garmin Navi I got from a flea market
    4. Duckduckgo
    5. Librewolf/Firefox
    6. Etar Synced via CalDAV
    7. Contacts on my Sim card
    8. A mix of etar and Fossify Notes
    9. Libreoffice with Openoffice if it dosent work
    10. Signal, Telegram
    11. Signal/Zoom
    12. Thunderbirds RSS, Lemmy and Pixelfed, I just look on Tagesschau every other day
    13. Newpipe, Jellyfin, and Antennapod
    14. TILvids and the instance The peertube App recommends videos from
    15. KeePassCX, or at least im trying to make it work
    16. Mullvad, PiHole with Mullvad VPN, Standard NAT wall
    17. Kvaesito / Graphene
    18. F-Droid, Aurora Store, Obtainium
    19. My Nas, planning to switch to Nextcloud
    20. FOSS weather, fetches from German Wetterdienst
    21. None
    22. None