I’m working on degoogling and moving away from major tech companies. I’m really curious what others here are using instead — especially for everyday tools and services.

What do you use for things like:

1.Email

2.Cloud storage / file sync

3.Maps & navigation

4.Search engine

5.Web browser

6.Calendar

7.Contacts management

8.Notes / to-do lists

9.Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.)

10.Messaging / chat

11.Video calling

12.Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news

13.Music streaming / podcast app

14.Video streaming / YouTube alternative

15.Password manager

16.VPN / DNS / Firewall

17.Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs)

18.App store / APKs

19.Photo backup / gallery

20.Weather

21.Smart assistant (if any)

22.Anything else you’ve replaced?

Would love to hear about your setup — both what works well and any trade-offs you’ve had to make. Always looking for better FOSS or privacy-friendly alternatives

  • Limcon@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    1. Protonmail

    2. None

    3. Organic maps/gnome maps

    4. Searxng

    5. Librewolf/Fennec

    6. Fossify calendar/gnome calendar

    7. Fossify contacts

    8. Fossify notes

    9. Libreoffice/overleaf

    10. Whatsapp (everyone uses it, so yeah :/)

    11. Sometimes discord

    12. Lemmy

    13. Spotify on the browser

    14. Only YouTube :/

    15. KeepassXC/KepassDX

    16. Yearly plan of nextdns (really recommend)

    17. Wanting to use lineageos

    18. Droid-ify/Aurora store/pacman

    19. Fossify gallery

    20. KDE weather/gnome weather

    21. None

    22. I think it didn’t use almost anything from google, so idk