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

  • amzd@lemmy.world
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    50 minutes ago

    https://delta.chat/ is also European but is decentralized unlike threema which means you don’t rely on one company to keep the servers up or your communications stop working.

  • icmpecho@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    if you’re considering Qobuz, it’s amazing, and if you’re a student it’s quite affordable with their student plan.

    unrelated tool, for more technical folks <3

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    One thing that list shows me is that Google are incredibly good at what they do, and have a finger in almost every pie imaginable.

        • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          1 hour ago

          True, but FOSS and free alternatives are very good too. I am amazed by Immich for example (Photos) or Organic Maps (Maps), Tuta (Mails) or Bitwarden (Pass). I have cut my ties with Google personnaly and try to get my close ones to follow but they are not always interested even if I propose the service selfhosted for free.

  • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    For mail I use mailo which is french. But I use a lot of other providers like disroot and my own email domain.

  • nostradamnit@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    I recently discovered Monocles.eu, they are a privacy respecting email, chat (Matrix?), drive (Nextcloud?), social (Mastodon) and translator platform. I’m still forming my opinion, but they look good. In France, there’s also the Chatons who propose local alternative hosting of many common services, such as Nextcloud, Mastodon, Matrix, Mattermost, VaultWarden, etc.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    1·
    13 hours ago

    I didn’t know Soundcloud was European. Been using them for a while, my only complaints are: lack of ability to report much of anything, lack of moderation, and a system that incentivizes poor quality uploads of popular songs to avoid automated detection.

    If you let it autoplay after picking a popular song you might get a list of bangers or you might get sped up trash uploads with an unfortunate high pitch tone that I imagine must have been outside of the uploader’s hearing range. Occasionally it plays some guy reading phonetic scripts like he’s just learning to read for the first time for an hour, but it made it into the list because it’s titled after a beatles song.

    • WormFood@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 hours ago

      SoundCloud might be the single worst music platform out there, and that’s saying a lot given that Spotify exists. The audio quality is awful, everything is expensive and they double and triple dip artists and listeners. Yet despite the exploitative monetisation, they don’t seem to actually make any money and have almost gone bankrupt several times.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        I certainly don’t plan to pay them anything, that’s for sure. I’m just out there looking for a stable mix of things I’ve never heard and some nostalgia, but very few and far between platforms do anything except reccomend the same bunch of songs that you’ve heard a thousand times before.

        And also something that plays well on a mobile browser.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    4·
    22 hours ago

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

  • prinzmegahertz@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    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.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 day 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

      • kilonova@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, it reminds me of that software Richard from silicon valley tv show made that was just so overly complicated. I’ve got to say the people who come up with these ideas are very intelligent, but it’s so overly complicated and not user friendly at all.

        • Kualdir@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          They are too set on catering to the small minority that cares about the privacy/decentrilisation of it all while a normal user just cares about: Simply creating an account and using the service