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Version 2 of the European app alternatives. Feel free to share it :)

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[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

It's pretty telling that, as a European, I've literally not heard of any of those European alternatives.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Last time I checked ecosia gets it's search queries from Bing, just a heads up. Other than that I'd say it's really solid.

[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Peertube has this fediverse problem. You google it, go to the webpage and instead of getting a list of promoted videos, you get an explanation of what it is and a manual on how to actually join, starting with „select a pot“. You then get to search the list of pots that all have like 10 viewers and 5gb upload limit. I stopped at this point.

That being said, i really would like an European youtube alternative, but not off the „provide your own hardware“ kind.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 points 8 hours ago

Exactly my problem why I'm not really getting into Lemmy either, same with mastodon. The whole decentralization standing in the middle of it all is just annoying.

Also yeah, Peertube did not even look like a competitor at all. Same with Threema with it costing 6 euros to use

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 9 hours ago

Joinpeertube.org doesn’t have the best onboarding, but take a look at the pinned post at !peertube@lemmy.wtf for a few good servers to choose from.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is missing Spotify and TomTom unless I am missing something

[–] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for the feedback. It is not supposed to be a complete list. It's a start. You can find more alternatives in our database: https://buy-european.net/

[–] DaanBanaan@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Organic Maps ftw.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

Im European and the EU can go fuck themselves.
Plenty others to choose from.

[–] starman@programming.dev 6 points 12 hours ago

Isn't mapy.cz just an OSM wrapper, but proprietary?

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 71 points 21 hours ago (4 children)
[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 23 points 21 hours ago

especially Organic Maps, it's got the most user-friendly UI out of the three

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[–] Dop@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Where's Signal (or molly if you need foss)? Signal is an non-profit organisation, so I'd say it can hardly be branded 'from' anywhere unless you're talking about servers location but then...

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Calling Peertube a Youtube alternative is just wrong. It is an alternative in theory but it probably doesn't even have a milionth of the content that Youtube has.

[–] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 15 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

That's the problem with "the winner takes it all" on the Internet. Which European alternative would you suggest instead?

[–] wasabi@feddit.org 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There is no real YouTube alternative, unfortunately. The content makes a video platform great. No alternative video platform is anywhere close to YouTube in content diversity.

It's unfortunately a very different situation to most other things. For example you can "simply" convince your circle of friends to use Threema. Try convincing your favorite Youtubers to post on any alternative platform and see how far you get.

[–] SeboBear@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago

I understand - my hope here would be we see „real“ content that is not clickbait optimized as there is no incentive on that

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not saying PeerTube is bad, but if I was a regular person that wanted an alternative to YouTube, going to PeerTube would be an annoying experience that will probably turn me off from it. You have to let people come with the appropriate expectations.

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

As a musician, I don't like SoundCloud. The free upload limit is way too small, their compression is not great and every time you do anything they try to sell you one of their subscriptions, which also cost way too much imo.

If other musicians didn't use it as much I would have already thrown it out long ago.

[–] torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 31 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Missing out the big one here - Spotify is also European fyi.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 57 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

I told OP this in previous post; Spotify gave money to Trumps' inauguration. That's why it was removed.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

Shameless plug for Navidrome

Want your music, always available. No ads, no enshitification. Maximum quality, always reliable?

There is only one clear winner for me.

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[–] A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Here Wego is the worst maps service I've ever had the displeasure of using. Amazon used to use it for deliveries (maybe they still do), and it took almost a year to get it to recognise that my house was not 8 miles away on a completely different road. It messed up the Amazon routes as the route it picked was all in that same area, except my house, that was 8 miles away.

[–] Malidak@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Is there a European Android-Alternative?

[–] CrowyTech@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

I've given up on an android alternative, or Google free android due to not wanting to lose banking apps

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Android is open source. Most companies make their own versions of android that include google services and their own apps, theming

You can get a version of android without google services or emulated google services. This will make a lot of apps on the google play store not work, but its better for privacy. These are phone-specific so you may not find a version available/supported for the phone you are using. Examples are graphene os(exclusive to pixel phones), lineageos and /e/os

You can also install linux on your phone, but i dont know much about this

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago
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[–] NewDay@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago (15 children)

Unfortunately, the PeerTube community is inactive and small. There are basically no interesting videos at all.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 9 hours ago

That’s not true. Check out the pinned post at !peertube@lemmy.wtf for a list of content creators. Also check out the home page of PeerTube.wtf that also has a list of content creators.

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

!peertube@lemmy.wtf is quite active and tries to highlight interesting content.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

Sorry but 2 posts in the last week can hardly be considered quite active.

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

The whole seznam ecosystem is an alternative to Google, unfortunately it's Czech only

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 0 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I'd suggest adding waze on there and tomtom amigo as an alternative Also infomaniak as an email alternative You're missing Google Drive -> Filen or Infomaniak

[–] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 minutes ago

Thanks for the feedback! Definitely something for the next iteration of the infographic but I will make sure to add it to the database asap.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

israeli + Google, can it get any worse?

[–] mstrk@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

waze was acquired by Google in 2013

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That is the point of placing it in the "needs to be replaced" part?

[–] mstrk@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

oh, right. My bad!

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