Buy European @feddit.uk Blaze (he/him) @feddit.org 12h ago

The small start from my perspective

cross-posted from: https://feddit.dk/post/10934750

Slowly beginning to use European alternatives for the following. See the list below.

I figured it was a good start to all the new ones around here: Google -> Qwant Apple Music -> Qobuz ChatGPT -> Me Chat Twitter/X -> Mastodon

And of course: Reddit -> Lemmy

I will update this list as I continue 👌🏼

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Very nice initiative!

Here's the official site: https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/
To your list, I've also switched out:

Gmail for mailbox.org

Google calendar for calengoo

Drive for koofr

Netflix for Mubi

Google docs for onlyoffice

Edit: and chrome for Vivaldi

No complaints so far, they don't all have exactly the same functions as the products I replaced, but they very much do the job and I'm happy overall.

Koofr and mailbox also respond rapidly to tech help requests 👍
- I've been using Mailbox.org for 3 years and it's great, but for me my best European cloud discovery was Koofr. I've been using them for 6 years now? And I never, ever had a problem
  
  Yep would've switched to koofr ages ago but I've been happy with the Google drive experience until I wasn't...
  
  Koofr is great, very user friendly!
Welcome to Lemmy @Magnusloev@feddit.dk !
pCloud is excellent storage service from Switzerland. Same with ProtonMail.

DuckDuckGo and Signal are really the only American things I still use. Might give Qwant a try, but I really like how DuckDuckGo has served me all these years.
Ecosia also got a browser ! But not sure how good it is.

If you want EU based browsers It's Vivaldi , ecosia , and Mullvad browser.

Yes they sadly are based on Chrome or gecko but ladybird browser still takes a while
Is this like Searx?
Good to see some progress
Is ecosia going to become actually decent? I used it for like 4 years but then tried DuckDuckGo and the results were just a lot better. I like the idea of ecosia, but I'm not willing to put up with that low of quality of search results.
Wonderful News!
Given the natural monopoly nature of search indexing, wouldn't it be better to do this as public financed open source?
YSK that Ecosia and Qwant (and many others) repackage Bing
- The post is literally about them creating their own index to move away from Bing. This is a utterly useless comment.
- Qwant has its own indexes and uses Bing to supplement them
  
  Qwant and Ecosia are also developing a fully European search index together. The first versions are expected to be available this summer.
- Still worth it
- You could use Mojeek then, they even have a Lemmy presence @mojeek@lemmy.ml.
  
  They are closed source too.

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