I switched from Dropbox to Nextcloud, saved a bunch of money and couldn’t be happier. It’s fantastic open source software. I don’t understand why it’s rarely listed in these guides.
Under my Nextcloud provider (Murena - not the cheapest, but they develop my phone OS so I figured I can support them) I also have OnlyOffice running on the cloud, which is great for co-authoring. And I also get e-mail there of course, though I mostly use e-mail from my web-hosting provider. I think Nextcloud also has video conferencing.
For search I use Qwant for now. I like that they’re slowly developing their own index, yet they are less puritan than Mojeek so the results are a bit more reliable. Haven’t heard of Karma before.
IONOS is also a great Nextcloud provider. Can highly recommend.
Avoid infomaniak. Company is anti anonimity, CEO said only criminals want it. As a result they are supporting the anti encryption laws coming to Switzerland.
Source? (I use some of their services and do like the fact they‘re Swiss and somewhat sustainable). Thanks!
generally a good idea to get off of streaming and cloud services for things you can do locally
better security, better for the environment
all the worst companies want you streaming and using cloud services with them, just don’t
Jellyfin servers for your movies and tv shows is the way to go!
How’d you obtain the movies in the first place?
You can rip them from blurays.
I don’t run a jellyfin server (yet), but a lot of people torrent their media by using a bunch of arr tools (Sonarr, Radar, Prowlarr, etc.) to do it I guess. So basically sail the high seas with some tools, download Jellyfin on a device (or set a proper server) and you’re set to have your own media streaming.
This is an ad made by infomaniak to promote their products. OP, are you affiliated with them?
Weird how the chart just prioritizes other corporations and only shows true open-source or self-hosted solutions when there are no non-US options realistically. Hmm.
What are the missing open-source alternatives ? I dont think there is anything like a open-source Netflix for example.?
Not sure recommending Swiss services is a particularly great idea from a privacy perspective right now.
Spotify is Swedish? Why is it listed next to American companies?
“Yes, but…”
- Listed on the New York Stock Exchange via a holding company in Luxembourg that issues American depositary receipts. (Who knows what percentage of its ‘shares’/ADRs are held by U.S. investors?)
- Paid Joe Rogan US$100 million for his alt-right podcast.
- Donated $150,000 to President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration ceremony, as well as hosted an inauguration-related brunch.
yes but spotify is also europes only afaik unicorn and that needed some serious cash (many people forget but i was hearing how streaming doesn’t work and spotify hasn’t been profitable ever for like 15 years!! right up until last year and now it’s a big evil megacorp, how quickly the story can change) europe doesn’t have its unified market setup yet so america is where you have to go
this isn’t a failure of spotify, it’s a failure of the EU which tbf is something they’ve working on
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/capital-markets-union-explained/
it’s controlled by americans.
Be careful, Tuta does not support IMAP/POP3, and you’ll have to use their own client.
Drime is also an alternative to Google Drive
Thanks mate! Posted on mastodon too
Disagree with Video Streaming, pirate it instead.
Thank you, strangely omnipresent being.
@Sunshine I propose to change it: “it’s time to utilize digital services you can control”
A lot of these just don’t work as an replacement.
For example?
The socials live from everyone being on them. Mail providers established a pseudo monopoly by distrusting unknown senders. Arte does not produce entertainment but edutainment. Office is dictated by your workplace. Twitch is barely viable as is for niche things like MTG. People gotta eat. You must use the search engine that enables you to be your most productive self in a work environment.(Desk jobs only, I guess, but I ain’t got a real job where I don’t know whether I see my home again when leaving for work)
I think you’re mixing up “they don’t work as a replacement” with “they don’t work as well as a replacement”. I’m sure you know the difference because Lemmy doesn’t have all the niche communities as Reddit so Lemmy isn’t as good of a replacement, but it is a replacement because otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
Reddit don’t work on mobile anymore. Lemmy is better for me.
So you set individual preferences accepting certain pros and cons.
The claim “doesn’t work as a replacement” hence only is inside your criteria.
Regarding the “social live”, lets be real there is hardly anything social about Instagram aside from forwarding memes to your friends, which you can do in any messenger app. Regarding mail providers, the medium ones are not affected by the distrusting problems. Regarding office, you can switch for anything outside the office. I also have to use MS at work. At home i run LibreOffice and don’t pay any more money to MS. Same for searches, where i definitely use search engines more at home than at work. But even at work you can get reliable results from other search engines.
Lets be real, how often do your searches end up being a shortcut to the specific page on the same half a dozen websites? You are a programmer? Chance is most of your search results you click will be stackoverflow, w3school or similar. Most people will have Wikipedia articles among the top 5 they click on after searching. Just going to wikipedia directly is perfectly viable.
Literally all of them, you’re welcome!
And how exactly is one email provider better than another?
Probably for some people all of them are workable as replacements.
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am not going to wear a hair shirt
For anybody like me who was entirely confused by that sentence:
A hair shirt is a coarse garment intended to be worn next to the skin, keeping the wearer in a state of discomfort and constant awareness of the shirt’s presence. Such garments were traditionally worn by some Christian religious orders, along with individuals who felt penitent about certain actions or their lifestyles. Their use is fairly limited in the modern era, but the term is often used metaphorically, which is why someone might refer to “wearing a hair shirt” when they perform some other act of self-imposed penitence.
I switched to Qobuz and I like it much more than I liked Spotify. Only real complaint is having to use their web client in Linux.
I don’t stream, but I’m thinking of learning how to use torrents. More ethical than Apple or Amazon.
I had to fix some iCloud stuff for an ex, it was an absolute nightmare to deal with. I guess mileage varies. I couldn’t be happier with Nextcloud.
That said, I’m happy there are people who don’t want to sacrifice comfort on here. That’s a really good sign.
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I generally don’t like joining sites that require more than a username, password, and possibly an email.
WTF, why is Pixelfed on this list? smh.
You can run european instances with Pixelfed.
That was my understanding, too. Also Pixelfed was/ is my escape from IG.
Yeah, but it still a broken piece of software that should not be recommended as long as its development team keeps not fixing long-standing bugs.
Isn’t the founder Canadian ? Also it’s a bit silly applying borders to free software
