A guide for change
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Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!
The companies below have proven to be reputable and worth supporting.
Spotify
Pays artists $0.0003 per play
Shows ICE ads
Says something about see deep dive for disclaimer, but I don’t see a link in the post body. But interested to see what’s on there.
Edit: found the link
Warning
They pay significantly less royalties, promote AI music, and platform podcasters who spread misinformation - context: https//t.ly/spotify-history. They do offer a superior service, but some people choose not to support them for these reasons.
Yeah so, that doesn’t align with “reputable” and “worth supporting”.
Apple Music is actually better than Spotify, which deserves to sit on the left too along with the American options (no, I wouldn't move Apple Music to the right)
Unless someone ruins tidal by commenting below, I love tidal.
They pay their artists more
Artist pay is actually a big factor in comparing the Music Streaming options, with high royalties being a special shout-out. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/music-streaming/
Yeah I've been looking to get off Spotify for a while now. Was shocked to see it recommended. It's a shame tidal removed their "connect" feature, it would have made it so easy
I just checked and the Connect feature in Tidal appears to still be there. I don't use it though so can't say for sure.
I switched from Spotify to Tidal and I've been really happy with it, but it's of course American. Deezer and Qobuz aren't worthwhile Spotify alternatives.
You aren't wrong. I went back and forth on whether to include them. The reality is that everyone knows Spotify and far better to educate people on why NOT to support them (hence being red and with a disclaimer).
Link for ease of reference for others. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/software/D5JUoM1dZysf7JJgTAWXy/
People increasingly want their voices heard and are taking action by choosing the companies they support.
These can be due to privacy concerns, environmental reasons, boycotting US companies, or other causes.
Doesn’t the premise imply that Spotify should be in the left column instead then?
The service being “superior” or convenient is counter to the argument.
Oh, how I WISH Qobuz gets the same excellent feature as Tidal has - when you share a link to an artist/album/track from Tidal, and someone else clicks it, two things can happen:
It just magically solves all the issues with people not wanting to switch because they like sharing their music.
I would add Librewolf in the browsers and Searx in the search engines.
Honestly if you have to put american things in the change columns then swap spotify and youtube music, spotify is just soo bad
They are there! In fact, Librewolf is listed first as an excellent privacy option - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/browser
I appreciate the transparency in this post but I find it odd there are so many American/Canadian options in the change to column.
I decided to highlight rather than remove, so people can see how it compares to their US counterparts. It is also partially due to the effort required to maintain another full version. The most significant driver for this is to encourage people to move away from Big Tech, and a secondary driver is to move to EU-based tools.
Why? The US is where a lot of technology innovation was directed for a lot of the things being discussed here, so it's kinda limiting to leave them off. Not every US company is bad.
In the os category, it honestly feels odd that they're going by the distro location, when every alternative they list is based on Linux, which is just as American as firefox.
You might prefer the standard version then - https://www.purchasewithpurpose.io/.
I agree that the OS section needs a lot of work.
I got to the bottom of the image and Lemmy and Piefed not even on there, ha wtf. I’d add Migadu for email and Kagi for search, both very good value.
Kagi is there for search - will look at Magidu.
P.S. Kagi is US-based, but I personally use them.
Why is there no section for alternatives to reddit? We should really push more people into the fediverse.
Vivaldi Mail beats Proton and Tuta because Vivaldi strongly opposes cryptocurrencies / pyramid schemes, the others support it.
Vivaldi mail requires you to be an "active community member" in the Vivaldi community
Tuta and Proton are a no-go for me for free tier (or at all) allowing me to use third party software for their email. I like to use Thunderbird and Vivaldi's email client to combine my inboxes. Unfortunately that doesn't work with Proton and Tuta.
i don't use vivaldi mail (aside from the mail client in vivaldi) since i use my own domain but wouldn't just using social.vivialdi.net count for that? if you're using mastodon anyway, at least...
The guide doesn't say what greyed out means. I thought it was for american companies but there are canadian, australian, and eu things greyed out too.
I made a mistake on Vivaldi, but the others are because they are non-EU owned. The website separates the HQ and ownership better, which helps explain this. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
How about startmail for email from the Netherlands
Startmail is there on the site! Just too many good options to include in the infographic. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/email
Thanks @ooli3@sopuli.xyz for sharing my guide. Below is the text that followed the original.
I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.
I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.
Details:
- Site - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
- Code - https://codeberg.org/purchase-with-purpose/pwp-website
- Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!
I see there are several comments! I'll go through it now and respond.
thanks for the guide. Hopefully it will channel millions from greedy business to more sensible companies
Okay, one questian. What about mega.io? I never see anyone talking about them, neither negatively or positively. Are they ok for folk around here, non-foss aside?
Isn't that the descendant of Megaupload?
The pricing looks good to me... and also the scrolling animation on their webpage.
Eyup, it is. I like the plan I have with them, just curious of public opinion...which there seems to be none xD
Another paid search option is Metager - since Mullvads Leta shut down, i looked for something to switch to and Metager fits the bill: no tracking shit, no ads, a good search with working blacklists, and a configurable cost for the search depending on which indexes you want to use and if you want to use search suggestions. It also taught me to use search shortcuts which i was too lazy to use before - no need to use my tokens when i know i want a wikipedia result.
Metager is an excellent choice, and I do my best to explain to those the difference between it and a standard search provider. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/search-engine
I've recently switched to Vivaldi on Android because Firefox was constantly just janky for me. Now I'm testing it on Linux too, the included email client is a great perk. Too bad it is not fully open source (the UI stuff is proprietary).
Maybe give Iceraven a try. Its a FF Android fork and works with lots of add ons that regular FF android does not offer for some reason.
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
Edit:
To be clear, Iceraven does not magically make all add ons usable. But more than regular FF android anyway. From their Readme:
Our goal is to be a close fork of the new Firefox for Android that seeks to provide users with more options, more opportunities to customize (including a broad extension library), and more information about the pages they visit and how their browsers are interacting with those pages.
Notable features include:
about:configsupport- The ability to attempt to install a much longer list of add-ons than Mozilla's Fenix version of Firefox accepts. Currently the browser queries this AMO collection Most of them will not work, because they depend on code that Mozilla is still working on writing in
android-components, but you may attempt to install them. If you don't see an add-on you want, you can request it.
I was using the addons I need on my Android Firefox. That part was great. I think most of my issues were more due to the browser engine lacking behind on Android and just feeling janky compared to how smooth and well functioning Chromium based browsers were.
I've tried a few Firefox forks on Android here and there and it was usually a few improvements here and there but overall the experience was similar.
A big recent issue was that Firefox initially loaded for a really long time so doing a quick search was anmoying the first time I launched it. Another issue was how often Firefox was killed in the background. That's partly due to Xiaomi and Android, but for whatever reason even mega bloated chromium browers don't do that. Then bunch of small issues like browser theme not changing with the rest of the system or changing partially that suddenly I had white on white or black on black and I had to kill Firefox to fix the issue. The Android experience has always been janky for me with FF and I've used it for idk as long as I remember it being on Android
You can use ironfox in android. Librewolf would be me choice for desktops
love vivaldi; i found the built in blocker is so much better than ublock, epecially if you edit your sources and add in easylist or the other ublock filters.
i just wish vivaldi android would get extensions.
Anyone tried https://www.navidrome.org/ for self hosted music streaming? Haven't yet myself
Using it since a year or so. It's great ! Your experience will differ depending on which app you will connect to your instance.
I didn't used it but i once saw a video about it, it's great
KAGI use russian yandex index.
Among many others. Google, Bing, etc.
How about startmail for email from the Netherlands
Pop_OS I not very good at gaming. Try looking into Gardua Linux and Bazzite as they have more modern packages and faster driver updates.
Or Manjaro. Arch purist weeaboos hate it, but it's made in Germany, is amazing for gaming and has very fast driver updates. Additionaly, the installation is super simple and fast.
In my experience Manjaro only has problems when you use AUR dependencies break because some package hasn't been updated for Manjaro. Other than that, it's perfect for me.
Cachy OS is also pretty solid in my experience. But i cant really compare it as i didnt use anything else so far
I personally use cachyOS as a daily driver (I got tired of Arch) and it is pretty good performance wise, I just experience a lot of stability problems compared to gardua or bazzite. Still stand by my choice, its an amazing distro.
For Linux, there's also Arch if you know what are you doing. Manjaro might be a good first step into the Arch ecosystem, even if there are obvious differences, as Manjaro is a different distro, not just a (poorly) preconfigured Arch installation line Omarchy.
I like using fedora over Ubuntu, seems more stable and gets updated sooner. Idk about the politics of it though.
friends don't let friends use storytel.
Amazing guide!
Does anyone have any experience with Zeitkapsl? I switched to Ente almost a year ago and am generally happy with them, but I'd rather support a European company if they're offering more or less the same solution.
Ive been using zeitkapsl for about 8 months now. Does the trick, very basic functionality, but also really quick and good response from the company if you find a bug or you have questions etc
Great! I might give it a try this weekend. They have a free trial after all.
Where's the collaborative calendaring guide?
Nextcloud includes one: https://nextcloud.com/groupware/
i was a big fan of flickr before they got bought by yahoo and enshittified
I used https://instag.com/reddit/ to bypass the block rather than disabling my vpn for that smut site.
Here is the image for anyone that couldn't see it.
All of their guides are available here - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
and here - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
it's not for everyone but instead of youtube and apple music, i suggest https://idagio.com/ too
If you include Nextcloud Memories for photo management, why not include it for data storage and web office as well?
A few suggestions:
Ente can be cloud hosted or self hosted. The use of cloud connectivity is optional. (Shown correctly on the linked website)
Fedora is another beginner friendly OS, and Bazzite is become a more popular gaming OS.