~~Remove Brave~~
~~Maybe add Signal; It's easier than Element, but it's also centralized~~
Stop suggesting Linux Mint specifically
Recommend Hosted Nextcloud
~~Add GrapheneOS~~
Maybe add Delta chat
~~Maybe remove Bluesky~~
~~Remove Stremio and add Jellfyin (even though it's selfhosted and not a direct equivalent)~~
~~Add ente because Immich is selfhosted~~
~~Add aurora~~
~~Add SearxNG~~
Add SimpleX
Add lichess
Add pCloud

Any other suggestions?

Temporary improved version:

From	To	Compromise
X, Threads	Mastodon	Bluesky
Instagram	Pixelfed
YouTube	PeerTube	ReVanced (just blocks adds)
Reddit	Lemmy
Netlix, Disney+	🔨 Jellyfin
Google Meet, Zoom	Jitsi Meet
Google Docs	Etherpad
Google Search	🔨 SearxNG	Kagi, Ecosia
Google Drive	Nextcloud	pCloud, filen, Proton Drive
Google Photos, iCloud	Immich	Ente
Google Chrome	Librewolf, Firefox	Ungoogled-chromium
All messaging apps	Element (matrix)	Signal
Google Home, Amazon Alexa	Home Assistant
Play Store	F-droid, Aurora
Google Android, iOS	LineageOS, GrapheneOS
Windows, MacOS	Linux Mint

🔨 = Self-Hosted only (requires running a server)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would add SimpleX, Session, Threema, and Signal. Telegram sucks, and while I love the stickers, it sucks. As the other person said, Stremio is torrenting, which puts your IP address on as billboard. Don’t do it without a VPN or running it through Tor or I2P. I would add every Proton/Tuta product as an alternative to one of the 3000 Google products, like Gmail and Drive. However, I will ALWAYS recommend privacyguides.org ;3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you cram the reason Telegram sucks into a few sentences?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No encryption by default (you have to start a secret chat to have end-to-end encrypted communication).
No encryption for group chats and there is no option for secret group chats.
They store all your chat history on their server and have the keys to decrypt it at any time.
They have a pretty shitty support, if you need to report a bug or something, you can't easily do that.
They have a broken testing process for new features, may be pushed to streamline without making sure those work properly. I don't use it as my main communication app but even with rare occasions - the app crashes way too often.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ah okay. I mainly use it for file transfer between my devices. Is there a better way i could be doing that that you know of?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

LocalSend is a good tool for sharing files between devices. It is more of a AirDrop alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Session has a note to self feature afaik

Edit: also SessionX has one too