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Uni prof here- the one that continues to plague me is Google Classroom. It may as well be the default for my department, which means if I switch to Moodle, Canvas, etc., I also have to manage all the student headaches that come with requiring them to use unfamiliar software. Also have to dip way into my budget for features I’m currently getting for free. Would really like to make a clean break from Google but this one hook is still in me. Blarg.
Google Tasks isn’t listed here.
This was something I relied upon heavily. When I de-googled, I didn’t want to just move it to another cloud platform, and as a selfhoster I tried quite a few self hosted solutions. Some were very good, but also quite complicated and filled with features I didn’t want.
So I wrote my own - Taskpony - and made it FOSS. It evolved into something that’s not a Google tasks copy, but suits my own needs better. Simple, easy, useful. I’ve really enjoyed the process of writing and sharing this.
Currently using Vivaldi Browser (/e/ OS). Any thoughts and/or recommondations?
It’s criminal that https://delta.chat/ isn’t named as an alternative chat especially since its in-chat apps (https://webxdc.org/) contain alternatives for half of googles apps but that are peer to peer, e2ee and offline first unlike most of the alternatives in the graphic.
I own a Synology nas that i tinker a bit with self hosting stuff, but is there a open source project that makes it so easy and convenient or maybe even better? Cause Synology is cool its stilla big corp that wants to harvest my data.
https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-portainer-on-your-synology-nas/
Keep your Synology and start hosting docker containers with open source replacements for the Synology branded ones.
That way the storage is still solid and maintenance free, but you can experiment with different options on top.
Depends a bit what you want exactly.
You can get the same with trueNAS (or hexOS which is an easy to use wrapper), or Unraid. But that needs more than a bit of tinkering (in my opinion)
I tried some, but would up back on Synology since I don’t have time to waste on the NAS layer
Forgetting that immich needs a selfhosted server?
Thus it aint really an alternative if you really want it to be applicable to the average user.- An immich user.
proton drive has a photo backup feature
It’s interesting they haven’t recommended anything proton here when proton as a whole works very well in a bunch of these categories… I imagine it could be because they’re a competitor to Tuta
Proton Calendar is listed
Ah yeah, I was looking at the mail/password manager/docs side instead… They’ve also got Proton Drive on there as well though
No worries. The chart is a mess.
Thanks for pointing that out!
I had assumed one of the reasons the list feels so weak to me is because they didn’t want to add selfhosted alternatives.
But since that is not the case, the list is even weaker than I thought.This is a strong list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
How do they list Nextcloud as an alternative to Google Drive but not to the Google office apps? LibreOffice is not really a substitute, Nextcloud Office/Collabora is.
Should be said that some alternative search sites, such as Ecosia, share some of your information with their upstream search providers which does include Google.
What I thought as well…
This is using google with extra steps.
Anyone recommending CryptPad as an alternative to Google Docs is pretentious af to me or is only using it on PC. The mobile version of CryptPad is the most unusable clunky bullshit ever.
For most users, Next loud or Libre is far better
Some people are willing to contend with less perfect UIs to get away from Big Tech.
The list is incomplete, a bit dumb, and mostly advertising anyhow. Each heading should have many more and often better alternatives.
Are we doing ads now here? And are we, like, OK with it now?
On second thought you’re absolutely right. Report created.
edit: oh, this is YSK, I was thinking more about IT communities.
Bruh chill a lot of these are FOSS
A lot of these are filler. It’s an add for a specific product disguised as one of this endless lists, but they couldn’t stop themselves from being obvious
I don’t want brands to think there’s a loophole they can exploit by half-heartedly endorsing FOSS for nefarious advertising. “Coke tastes great with the user agency of Linux” is still an ad for Coke.
This is an ad for Tuta, which server side software is, AFAIK proprietary. You cannot self-host.
Yeah and that Tutao stuff looks pretty appealing with those nice bold letters and top placement.
I was also wondering about the order of the alternatives.
It feels like the first entry is the “best” to replace tge google service but IMO some are not even close to other lower placed alternatives.
I’m using Gmail as an email client. I tell Gmail to go to fetch emails from my other accounts and so I have unified email. I don’t use @gmail.com as my primary address.
Problem: from today Google discontinued the feature and they warned me only yesterday.
Which webmail has almost feature parity with Gmail?
I need filters and fetching emails from multiple accounts. I have a dedicated server so the part of fetching email can be done from an external program
The normal process would be to tell these other accounts to send emails to your primary account. Why would you even authorize another software (or mail provider) to fetch them instead.
Filters are available (almost) everywhere.
Please don’t just forward all you unencrypted email to the biggest data scanning company in the world
I have good experiences with Ionos (with my own domain. But they like to upsell you with stuff you don’t need).
The Business mail tier also supports Exchange Active sync (flaky on Android. Works well on iOS). The business/basic tier has CalDAV/CardDAV (which I use on Android with Davx5.Their spam is a bit overzealous. But if something ends up in there, you A: Can whitelist the sender
B: Receive an info-mail at the end of the day about new messages in the folder.The webmailer is neat. But I rather use Thunderbird.
Kreate, Musify and Harmony Music are all great alternatives to YT Music
Anyone knows of a google lens translation alternative? I use it to share memes with a friend who doesn’t know English without having too manually replace text (these days it’s pretty good with context).
Ideally I would love to self host a thing that would do that, I don’t think it would be too complicated to vibe-code some self hosted translator plugged into a image to text reader/replacer or however you’d call that… But the fact that it sounds simple to vibecode makes me think it either already exists or is way more complicated than it sounds.
Why would you want it to be a server instead of an app just running on the phone, that can work offline?
This is an ad. At least tuta marked it but that doesn’t make it way better.
All YouTube “options” are YouTube frontends. All android “alternatives” are android - which isn’t the guides fault as there are none in my opinion. Still unserious from my point of view.
It’s once more a catch all “guide” that doesn’t guide but simply mentions enough popular alternatives to get popularity.
OP’s account exists for over a year, but this is the only participation in the fediverse ever. No other posts, zero comments… WTH?
they even listed calyx which is currently taking a long nap and is not secure
And as mentioned elsewhere, many cited alternatives are not degoogled at all.
And once you go that way you should go one step further and look for open source alternatives. I’m pretty sure some listed aren’t that either.
There are better curated, less biased lists out there.
this is a helpful image. thanks for sharing
