• James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They’re different things, Aurora is a privacy respecting alternative to the play store app. F-Droid is it’s own thing but it’s library does have some overlap.

      Best practice is to get both, and check F-Droir first.

  • M137@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How is it that all these lists are always kinda bad? They always miss some obvious good alternatives or have ones that shouldn’t be there. I’ve seen so many posted and not a single one has been without issues. And these are not subjective things I’m referencing, I’d have no issue with that, they just always seem to be made by someone who has very shallow and uninformed knowledge about the alternatives. My main issue here is Kagi missing from search, and Proton and Brave being part of any of the recommendations.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Tuta is a direct competitor to Proton. They would get more flak for excluding it then including it. Better to have it in and let people discuss Proton’s issues in the comments.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        CEO had a weird remark about a usa republican politician, people didn’t like to find out that some of their devs use AI coding assistants and then they attempted (and failed spectacularly) to remove its traces from their github repositories, and many don’t like that they launched a free LLM service.

        I don’t know if I agree with the first one. I don’t know what to make of it, there is contradictory information about it on the internet, but I certainly keep that in mind.
        I don’t care that much about the copilot configs in the repo, because I think it can be used kind of responsibility (relatively to the environment, not, though), but it’s extremely suspicious how they handled it.
        the third is something I don’t agree with completely either. are we also hating duckduckgo for having duck.ai , or is it only proton? people say marketing it as encrypted is a scam. sure the queries cannot be end to end encrypted, but the storage of former chats can. did they market it as an E2EE service, without specifying which part is like that?

  • mystic-macaroni@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I like the design, but a few suggestions:

    1. You don’t need to cross the google services out. It is already in red indicating it is ‘bad’. The replacements with a green background indicated those are ‘good’

    2. Make a ‘table of contents’ with an enumerated list of the services. The numbers on the list should be repeated next to their coresponding services.

    3. In the ‘table of contents’ and the coresponding boxes, the google services headings should be larger. They are after all headings.

    All of these suggestions are for readability and easy of use. 2 and 3 in particular are for people looking for a particular thing. Say I’ve already replaced gmail but not google drive. If your goal is just to replace google drive skimming to just find google drive makes that harder.

    Overall, this is the best one of these I’ve seen.

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    It’s always great to see these guides. I have some de-googling yet to do, but I think my project this upcoming winter might be a larger general de-commercialization and increasing FOSSification than just a google-focused thing.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I started using Tuta recently. I created some aliases. Someone can email be at one of my aliases but if I reply to them then the other person sees my alias as well as my original email address, which kinda defeats the purpose. Anybody know why that is?

    • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      If you set up aliases it should be auto-sending back as that email when replying (or mine does). If it isn’t, just click the Sender field and change it to the alias in question. If all your aliases aren’t an option in that dropdown then I think something isn’t configured right and it’s possible you set up a catch-all instead of an actual alias I think?

  • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They missed to mention Jitsi Meet, posteo.de, Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP (for an example Snikket). But other than that, really good list! 😃

    And yes, you can use others servers for Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP/Snikket. No need for self-hosting your own.

  • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I’ll be very happy when a google wallet alternative is made (don’t think it’s really possible right now!?).

    • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      2 months ago

      I’m just sayin’ tuta posted this list. That’s it. I didn’t expect anyone to follow it, heck, even upvote it. But here i am with ~350 internet points.