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I created an infographic of privacy-forward alternatives to Google products...and would love your feedback.

Is it easy to use? Enough white space? Intuitive? Sharable? Is there anything I'm missing?

The infographic image in this post is NOT clickable. The link above will give you a downloadable PDF with working hyperlinks.

Re: the legend, "easy set-up/use" means either that this is a big part of the alternative product's branding, or I've used it myself and found it easy.

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not listing Organic Maps is a travesty. Possibly mention Immich, though I see you're going more for SaaS and not really self hosted

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, this is definitely more for beginners (like myself. :) I will check out Organic Maps and maybe add them in, thanks!

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you try Organic Maps yourself, try using Sherpa Onnx TTS with it. It's a great open source match and really makes the experience of navigation top tier

https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Disregard my OM suggestion. I just became aware of recent drama within It's community and there looks to be a fork coming soon.

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

https://sopuli.xyz/c/CoMaps

Wow, these seems to be controversy over a lot of privacy-based alternatives! I already added OM to the infographic but am happy to replace it (until the new fork is ready) with a different easy-to-use U.S., privacy-forward map.

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Organic Maps and OpenStreetMap should be listed as map alternatives. Mullvad Leta is a recently popular private search engine.

Google isn't inherently bad; they are bad for privacy but good for security. For that reason, Chromium-based browsers such as Vanadium, Trivalent, or Brave Browser are still good alternatives to Google Chrome even though Chromium (which is the open source base for Chromium-based browsers) is developed by Google.

Also: the "T" in PeerTube should be capitalized.

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! If there was one browser from my list you'd replace with Vanadium, which would it be?

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Epic, only because I've never heard of it so it probably isn't recommended often. I should note that Vanadium is only available on Android and is very difficult to install if you don't use GrapheneOS. Trivalent is only available for a small subset of Linux distros (and comes preinstalled on secureblue). Brave Browser is cross-platform and recommended by GrapheneOS as an alternative to Vanadium if you want specific features Vanadium lacks.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

would you mind if i translate this to my language and use it as a poster?

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's your language? Would the products.links still make sense to readers of this new version?

In any case, it's fine with me as long as you're not making. monetary profit from the poster. Also, will you please share a copy I can add to my website?

Also, I made a poster of a similar infographic I created several years ago when I owned a content studio...I forgot all about that and think I may do it for the English version as well! I can sell it at cost. A friend also suggested I turn it into a mouse pad.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

korean. I might have to change a few things.. I'll be running some small local campaign at work about degoogling/free software etc and there are surprisingly very few good graphical contents I could find and this looks great.

I'll get back to you if I actually get to use this. Thanks :)

Oh, very cool! Yes, do reach out if you decide to do it.

[–] beachsquid@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any alternatives for Google Tasks?

Ooh, good question! It looks like Nextcloud has a tasks app. I can't fit every product on the infographic, but may add this to the links website page.

[–] cj2127@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Great list so far! I'd also like to recommend KSuite. They have email services and KDrive for storage.

I think I'm all set now,...but I will check this out and potentially add it to the website links page!

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

nah With all respect, as a proton user, proton docs sucks ass. but that may change in the future

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Open source licensing, offline-only usability, and self-hostable are the only important criteria to me, and they are not listed here.

Yes, I'd say this is for beginners—say, my mom—who are heavily in the Google ecosystem and don't know how to get out. Maybe I should change the focus away from privacy, since Google has many other issues besides privacy that made me leave.

[–] elver@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

It's contacts syncing that I'm stuck on. Hoping to do something with a box running OMV but I've never come across anything so simple as Google Contacts 😔

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isn't Grayjay a frontend for YouTube?

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aha! Yes, it is. Any suggestions for non-YouTube video platforms?

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[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nextcloud replaces Photo's, Drive and docs.

And more

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