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[–] yigruzeltil@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Funny how the social media section doesn't mention Facebook, which is by far more used here in Romania than Twitter/X, nor Instagram. For the latter the fediverse alternative is Pixelfed, for the former one could either use Friendica or make account on a Mastodon instance with higher character-limit - the one I use has the cap as high as 10,000 characters, so I can type long posts just like on Facebook, instead of just tweets. There is also Veklar, which claims to become soon a more GDPR-compliant alternative to fediverse, allowing private posts and messages; the problem is that it's not decentralized, but its only server is based in France...

When it comes to browsers, one could look into Zen Browser (the developer seems to be from Spain), Librewolf (possibly US-connected, keep that in mind), Floorp (desktop-only; developers seem to be Japanese), and for Android browsing probably Iceraven or IronFox.

Signal? What about Threema and XMPP clients?

[–] calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 hours ago

Mail: Posteo is missing.

Also: Spotify is a bad joke.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Wasn't Qwant secretly tracking you or something?

[–] Bali@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Thank you for Informative infograpahic. However i have doubt about recommending Waterfox, in my opinion it should not be recommended for the reason that its involved in an unclear business practice to sustain its development.

Waterfox is a fork of Firefox with some tweaking, probably somewhat close to LibreWolf which i think have better offering for being more a community driven project.

However, web browser is a complex piece of software, features and important bugs & security fixes being added from time to time, so it is also important to consider how fast they merge the change from Upstream (Firefox). If it's too long to to get update it could introduce security issues. So as of now i don't see any viable alternative to Firefox, Chromium or even Ungoogled Chromium.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 13 points 13 hours ago

Spotify? Is this a joke? Lol

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

What’s the reason they give mastodon the privacy badge, but don’t give it to lemmy or signal?

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

The Fediverse is great, but privacy really isn't its thing. Anyone thinking the Fediverse is the privacy-focused choice has really misunderstood the whole pitch.

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Honestly privacy and social media don't make sense together at all. With all of these platforms, your privacy = how much you share on them. You can't share sensitive information on any social media (corpo or federated) and expect it to be private.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

Privacy is not only anonymity.

It also includes things like security and built in surveillance capitalism tools.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 7 points 12 hours ago

That's what happens when you half ass your work.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spotify donates to Trump and is overall horrible.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Deezer is a French alternative to Spotify, it pays artists a little bit more. https://www.musictrendz.com/post/which-streaming-service-pays-artists-the-most

[–] JustEnoughDucks 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I ditched Spotify recently after it started pushing MAGA/Musk content for no reason. I tried Deezer and Qobuz and really wanted to like them, but Qobuz had the most godawful terrible recommendations and Deezer's Android app had poorly designed navigation and felt like it hadn't been updated in a decade.

[–] borusa@feddit.uk 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Access Industries has a 41.4% ownership of it. They also own Warner Music Group.

Also:

In 2015, the company donated $1.8 million to Super PACs supporting Republican presidential candidates Scott Walker and Lindsey Graham.[75]

[–] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Sad to learn they are majorly USA owned then. Their offices are still mainly in Paris and the data is processed in France. I have been using them back and forth for more than a decade. At the beginning, you could upload your own library (including copyrighted albums) and make it available for streaming to other people, it was a fun time.

[–] prongs@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I know many people feel entrapped by streaming services, but I switched to Bandcamp like 10 years ago and have never been happier with my music habits. I buy music I like on Bandcamp Friday and store it locally on my PC/phone. Load up and take away as needed.

Sure, it's a bit more effort to purposefully seek new music, but I love that process. Makes it a very deliberate listening experience.

[–] yigruzeltil@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I am afraid Bandcamp is US-based...?

[–] prongs@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It is, but if you only purchase on Bandcamp Friday then the platform doesn't take a cut of the sales.

[–] yigruzeltil@lemm.ee 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm well aware of that (I'm a Bandcamp user), but I'm concerned about the fact they rely on US servers. There are a lot of independent musicians who only want to publish on Bandcamp, not on Spotify and YT. In the extreme scenario where the POTUS might instate a great Internet firewall, we - active Bandcamp users - might end up dependent on VPNs. Let's see if there's going to be any European Bandcamp alternative.

[–] prongs@lemm.ee 1 points 49 minutes ago

Yeah that's fair. I suppose I haven't really considered that because I treat Bandcamp as a storefront only, and download + maintain my library locally. So if the servers died tomorrow the only thing I'd lose is the ability to purchase. In some ways the great fracturing of online platforms is bound to be a net positive for most communities.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And they unironically say to join them on reddit.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

They do call out switching to Lemmy in the graphic at least, thought that was pretty funny tho as well. Could link to a Lemmy community as well for the same thing

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 3 points 14 hours ago

My guess is that it's to reach the people on Reddit but not on anything else.

[–] Lasagna@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I though Orion was free to use?

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago

It is.

Guessing OP marked it as paid thinking it was because Kagi search engine is paid. Same developers.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spotify doesn’t belong in there at or or in the left being transitioned to another.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

free: arrr... (distant parrot noises).

To be more on topic: In deezer you could listen to audiobooks in correct order with just a random email account.
My last disappointing use of spotify free was, as it force-shuffled the album I was listening to.

[–] Kualdir 3 points 16 hours ago

There's also the free ksuite mail/drive as a free email alternative!

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

MASTODON

[–] craig9@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago

I have just changed from fastmail (Australian owned, but hosted in the US) to mailbox.org (German owned and hosted, as I understand it).

The reasoning is that I didn't want my email provider to be reliant on a US hosting service. This graphic has fastmail as a preferred choice though, and doesn't mention mailbox.org at all.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 17 points 1 day ago

Of all the alternatives for gmail, why suggest another American solution? GMX (.com, .net, .de, .ch) has been around for 30 years, is fully German owned and hosted, and got both free and paid tiers just like mail.com.

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago

Codamail.com

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

probably not the right place to ask but I can never view posts like this in full resolution. Like I zoom in and it's just blurry. Right now I'm using photon web front end to view the post on dbzer0.com

edit: oh this image is hosted on a third party image host. The image hosted on lemmy is just the thumbnail.