Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Credit to https://www.reddit.com/user/lukakopajtic/
There might be some changes that could improve it further:
Any other suggestions?
While this list is itself could use a major rework, I'm happy to see that this list, originally posted on reddit specifically, gives visibility to lemmy as a reddit alternative.
Where is my beloved son f-droid?
Droid-ify is an alternative frontend for f-droid
And IMO it's better
Reminder: Stremio can use Torrents. Be aware of your local laws before enabling Torrent addons.
Threema is a swiss based messenger which e2e encryption.
Revanced is cool and all, but there are alternatives. One of them is Newpipe and its forks, it's my personal favourite. Pretty sure 95% of people here already know it. But fyi, they have their own associated little nonprofit organisation based in Germany, the Newpipe e.V., which I found out about only recently and thought was pretty neat.
The phrase about freedom and convenience in the OP image reminds me of what France's foreign minister recently said about Europe's relationship with the USA:
Why is blue sky in the right side column? It’s the same thing as X.
Home assistant is the gold standard for home automation now, they are light-years ahead of anything from the big tech. Billions of dollars and they can't even make a usable home automation service.
I recently moved Gmail, Google Docs and Sheets, Google Keep (tasks) and Drive to Mailbox.org. It's super affordable and works really well. You can edit docs/sheets online or offline. No self-hosting required. I recommend it. It's located in Germany.
Any good euro alternatives for adobe suite?
GIMP for Photoshop, Darktable or RawTherapee for Lightroom, Inkscape for Illustrator. For Premiere I was about to suggest DaVinci Resolve but it's Australian, not European / FOSS.
Australia is in Eurovision, does that not count? :D
kdenlive is a foss video editor.
Ah yes, I could not remember its name!
I don't know where it's from, but Krita is always worth a look too :)
I was looking for illustrator so thanks
You may want to clarify which parts you want to replace. As a whole suite, there isnt anything I am aware of, but each individual part usually has one or more open source alternatives
I use Nextcloud as a similar way as Google Drive or Google Photos. But it's self-hosted and not for the mass.
I would recommend a mail service for drive. Most are quite stingy with storage. Mailbox.org or Infomaniak.
Why is no one mentioning Delta as alternative chat app? it is neat, has bots and mini apps, multi device too.
Nextcloud is not the same as Google Drive. Element is not the same as Netflix. Recommending bluesky as a replacement for X is at least misleading, it is neither European nor free nor is it anywhere near better than X.
Edit: Stremio comparison with Netflix wanted to say
Yep, most things on that list are not drop-in replacements for these products at all, as you're supposed to change your behavior entirely. i.e.:
Probably the most feasible things for the regular folk to jump to are Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Lemmy (self-hosting is not mandatory), Jitsi, Ecosia, LineageOS (if they switch phones) and Linux Mint (or any flavor of Linux for that matter).
Where does the Element Netflix comparison came from?
What's the alternative for gmail / Google calendar etc.
I think the biggest are the Proton and Infomaniak kSuite ecosystems. Both have free tiers afaik.
Yep, just switched to Proton (Swiss). Tutanota (German) is the other serious option for end-to-end encrypted, managed mail and calendar.
The main difference is that Proton offers a full "eco-system" to better compete with Google: besides Mail and Calendar, they offer an integrated Drive with automated photos backup on mobile, VPN, and private mail alias service (SimpleLogin) on their subscription.
I like it, but others prefer to spread their services among different. The price for the full package is similar to the price of Mail + VPN so you don't lose anything if you choose to use a NextCloud instead of their Drive, to better integrate with other open source apps for notes and photos.