• yigruzeltil@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    48 minutes ago

    Funny how the social media section doesn’t mention Facebook, which is by far more used here in Romania than Twitter/X, nor Instagram. For the latter the fediverse alternative is Pixelfed, for the former one could either use Friendica or make account on a Mastodon instance with higher character-limit - the one I use has the cap as high as 10,000 characters, so I can type long posts just like on Facebook, instead of just tweets. There is also Veklar, which claims to become soon a more GDPR-compliant alternative to fediverse, allowing private posts and messages; the problem is that it’s not decentralized, but its only server is based in France…

    When it comes to browsers, one could look into Zen Browser (the developer seems to be from Spain), Librewolf (possibly US-connected, keep that in mind), Floorp (desktop-only; developers seem to be Japanese), and for Android browsing probably Iceraven or IronFox.

    Signal? What about Threema and XMPP clients?

  • Bali@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 hours ago

    Thank you for Informative infograpahic. However i have doubt about recommending Waterfox, in my opinion it should not be recommended for the reason that its involved in an unclear business practice to sustain its development.

    Waterfox is a fork of Firefox with some tweaking, probably somewhat close to LibreWolf which i think have better offering for being more a community driven project.

    However, web browser is a complex piece of software, features and important bugs & security fixes being added from time to time, so it is also important to consider how fast they merge the change from Upstream (Firefox). If it’s too long to to get update it could introduce security issues. So as of now i don’t see any viable alternative to Firefox, Chromium or even Ungoogled Chromium.

    • Patch@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 hour ago

      The Fediverse is great, but privacy really isn’t its thing. Anyone thinking the Fediverse is the privacy-focused choice has really misunderstood the whole pitch.

    • ButtDrugs@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Honestly privacy and social media don’t make sense together at all. With all of these platforms, your privacy = how much you share on them. You can’t share sensitive information on any social media (corpo or federated) and expect it to be private.

  • prongs@lemm.ee
    4·
    16 hours ago

    I know many people feel entrapped by streaming services, but I switched to Bandcamp like 10 years ago and have never been happier with my music habits. I buy music I like on Bandcamp Friday and store it locally on my PC/phone. Load up and take away as needed.

    Sure, it’s a bit more effort to purposefully seek new music, but I love that process. Makes it a very deliberate listening experience.

      • prongs@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 hours ago

        It is, but if you only purchase on Bandcamp Friday then the platform doesn’t take a cut of the sales.

        • yigruzeltil@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          45 minutes ago

          I’m well aware of that (I’m a Bandcamp user), but I’m concerned about the fact they rely on US servers. There are a lot of independent musicians who only want to publish on Bandcamp, not on Spotify and YT. In the extreme scenario where the POTUS might instate a great Internet firewall, we - active Bandcamp users - might end up dependent on VPNs. Let’s see if there’s going to be any European Bandcamp alternative.

          • prongs@lemm.ee
            1·
            35 minutes ago

            Yeah that’s fair. I suppose I haven’t really considered that because I treat Bandcamp as a storefront only, and download + maintain my library locally. So if the servers died tomorrow the only thing I’d lose is the ability to purchase. In some ways the great fracturing of online platforms is bound to be a net positive for most communities.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      8 hours ago

      They do call out switching to Lemmy in the graphic at least, thought that was pretty funny tho as well. Could link to a Lemmy community as well for the same thing

    • Lumiluz@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      My guess is that it’s to reach the people on Reddit but not on anything else.

    • Sips'@slrpnk.net
      3·
      10 hours ago

      It is.

      Guessing OP marked it as paid thinking it was because Kagi search engine is paid. Same developers.

    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      free: arrr… (distant parrot noises).

      To be more on topic: In deezer you could listen to audiobooks in correct order with just a random email account.
      My last disappointing use of spotify free was, as it force-shuffled the album I was listening to.

  • craig9@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    21 hours ago

    I have just changed from fastmail (Australian owned, but hosted in the US) to mailbox.org (German owned and hosted, as I understand it).

    The reasoning is that I didn’t want my email provider to be reliant on a US hosting service. This graphic has fastmail as a preferred choice though, and doesn’t mention mailbox.org at all.

  • viking@infosec.pub
    17·
    1 day ago

    Of all the alternatives for gmail, why suggest another American solution? GMX (.com, .net, .de, .ch) has been around for 30 years, is fully German owned and hosted, and got both free and paid tiers just like mail.com.