Version 2 of the European app alternatives. Feel free to share it :)
Isn't mapy.cz just an OSM wrapper, but proprietary?
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Aren't almost all of these quite terrible?
Not at all.
Of course you would disagree, you're promoting them.
But I will be more than happy to replace them or add alternative in the next iteration of the infographic. What apps would you recommend?
I would reccommend further development.
And as we arm the continent for war once more, as the US commits to isolationism and NATO abandonment, we might as well disregard any copyright issues preventing the implementation of important features. So while we might lose everything, we might finally get decent European elternatives for a brief period.
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.
The whole seznam ecosystem is an alternative to Google, unfortunately it's Czech only
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.
For maps I'd also like to add Organic Maps, OsmAnd and Magic Earth.
especially Organic Maps, it's got the most user-friendly UI out of the three
Thank you! We already had Organic Maps in the database but I will add OsmAnd and Magic Earth now.
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Is there a European Android-Alternative?
How would I utilise these OS on an android phone please?
/e/os
SailfishOS
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...
Thanks for the suggestions!
Canada wants to know: why not zoidberg?
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.
That's the problem with "the winner takes it all" on the Internet. Which European alternative would you suggest instead?
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.
YouTube also didn’t have that variety and amount of videos when it started \o/
So? Again, peertube is great and I'm hoping it grows, but sending people ther as a YT alternative right now is just misleading, odyssey is much closer and even then I wouldn't call it a real alternative yet.
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.
I understand - my hope here would be we see „real“ content that is not clickbait optimized as there is no incentive on that
Dailymotion ?
Good idea!
Missing out the big one here - Spotify is also European fyi.
I told OP this in previous post; Spotify gave money to Trumps' inauguration. That's why it was removed.
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left Spotify for Deezer. Spotify owners are fashy.
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Unfortunately, the PeerTube community is inactive and small. There are basically no interesting videos at all.
!peertube@lemmy.wtf is quite active and tries to highlight interesting content.
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SepiaSeach will search a large number of instances for content. Not a bad start for peertube. But I do agree that it's hard to find good content there.
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Any alternative to Trello one of you can recommend?
I hadn't heard about it. Once we add more business software alternatives to the database, I will make sure to keep it in mind. Thanks for the suggestion! :)
No problem. There's also https://cryptpad.org/, an FOSS, self hostable private E2EE office suite (self hosted, but counts because the flagship instance is french.)
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