cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/41557369
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I dont see the reason for this post 🧅
Some mixed up categories, half of them proprietary and/or in the US, centralized, etc.
Some things need centralization, many others dont.
I really love kagi as search engine
What about alternatives to Google Authenticator?
I personally would have picked other services but OPs overview is plain and concise.
Add Posteo for email.
Is Telegram American/big tech?
Telegram’s founder is Russian, so no. Not “American.” I also don’t know it to be deemed big tech. Idk tho
It do have some weird encryption thing going on, though, where only private chats or secret chats or whatever they’re called offer end-to-end encryption.
Some of my alternatives to these:
- Search: Ecosia has Bing results, Startpage uses Google ones. Both are decent on what they do.
- Browser: Firefox and its forks are still good options. Remember, open source is not your enemy.
- App store: Aurora uses Play Store’s content (or lack of it), Droid-ify uses F-Droid’s.
- Mail, Drive, Password Manager, Gemini: Proton has made questionable actions before (e.g. parts of Lumo are not open-source). I recommend LeChat (Mistral’s AI, european) and selfhosting files if possible (Proton is a good alternative).
- Videos: Those suggested use YT’s content. Consider PeerTube (french, federated) for alternative content.
- Windows: Linux Mint is Irish, VOID Linux (for the technical users) is Spanish, SUSE Linux Enterprise (or OpenSUSE) is German.
Ecosia is switching to its own index
I’ll believe it when I can select it as the only one to show results from.




