BeReal and Soundcloud are huge commercial and proprietary services. The criteria on the left are quite misleading, when not applied to all applications that are recommended.
A better resource: https://www.goeuropean.org/
Also useful: https://isitamerican.eu/
I really wish there was a better version of these kinds of graphics that showed all options better, I guess that would end up being more like a website because there’s so many and followable links are nice, it would end up looking like one of the privacy guide websites but I wish there was something that was less privacy and alternatives focused and was more about giving more options in general because not everyone cares about privacy specifically or being green or whatever else.
Having Lemmy represented as an icon does us no favors. Hard to search for an icon when you don’t know what it means.
I don’t care if it’ll have low impact I’m going to boycott teams anyway.
Should be against the human rights convention, Microsoft went out of the way to make the worst possible program that one.
Does anybody know a Youtube that has videos about tech tinkering, crafting, and making art? I’ve tested out Odysee once, but at the time it was full of right-wing xenophobic stuff, which seemed to keep the creative crowd away. Also, Odysee was unusable from a slow mobile connection since it often didn’t offer a lower bitrate stream…
The best way to handle transitioning from YouTube is to use GrayJay. Follow creators that you like and when any of them have a platform on a different service, subscribe to them there.
Besides YouTube, it supports any PeerTube instance, Patreon, Twitch, Nebula, Odysee, Rumble, Dailymotion, Ted Talks, etc.
Well there are the various PeerTube instances, of which tilvids is one I use a bit. You do need to search specific tags for the things you like. Here is a list of fediverse branches
Does PeerTube have a better discovery algorithm than Mastodon? I have found simply tags and newest doesn’t work for me.
I currently only use it to subscribe to 1 user I know from youtube 😅. I have him on my mobile app Newpipe, where I have a few youtube and peertube subs on
Would prefer Canadian
Cool graphic, but I’m not sure if arte and mubi are comparable to Netflix and co, at least not for me as a casual viewer. Their selections seem to be more niche.
When the product is the content or the features rather than the platform this chart is useless.
You don’t sit down and go “I’m going to stream video”, you go “I’m gonna watch Star Trek” or “Hey, there’s a new season of Severance”. It’s the same with chat and social media. It’s not “I’m going to instant message”, it’s “I’ll text mom”.
You use what you gotta use. You don’t decouple from US big tech by boycotting it, you decouple by having EU big tech (at which point you’ve fixed nothing) or by competing with them with a different standard, which is possible but very, very hard and way outside the typical thought processes and organization patterns of most of these alternatives.
See also: why Bluesky entirely replaced Mastodon as a Twitter alternative despite showing up a year late with no pre-existing working standard.
This chart is less “yay let’s make things better” and more “woof, things are dire”.
US Digital Services is a very specific thing already, and not in the way you’re saying. It was basically hijacked to turn into DOGE. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a boycott of that too (whatever that may look like) but… This isn’t that.
For a cloud service, as such, I’d go for Nextcloud - though it is getting to be a huge behemoth again. Others exist though, and self host your nextcloud is even better!
Isn’t Claude French? I thought that was European already?
What about Ecosia or Mailbox
Good option. I’m thinking of oceanhero too, although idk what it’s search engine is
Deezer is 41 percent owned by Access Industries (an American company) which is owned by a Russian billionaire.
There appears to be a lot of issues in this image…
There’s no simple solution to what this image proposes.
There is no simple solution to most of society’s issues.
Don’t let perfect stand in the way of better.
Just a quick reminder, if you give yourself some time and a small budget (or upcycle older tech), there are more good (sometimes great) alternatives to everything listed here that you can build yourself (often pretty quickly, thanks to docker)
OnlyOffice is Russian which they try to hide by using shell companies abroad.
Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.
