@zackwhittaker Brush up your German skills 😅 https://di.day

@zackwhittaker Immich is an amazing replacement for Google/Apple Photos and for storage Opendrive/Nextcloud and these i was able to fully host myself with little knowledge of doing that. For mail/calendar etc. Protonmail.

@zackwhittaker and yeah, Mastodon!

@zackwhittaker as a European I've been using OVH for years. My own mastodon and Nextcloud instance are installed on a physical machine I rent from them and my Tor exit node on one of their cheap VPS. They also have all my domains. Stable and practical, 100% uptime in > decade of use.

I moved away from Gmail to Proton mail in 2021. I'm a bit scared by their CEO but he kept quiet eventually. Good suite.

@zackwhittaker Linux, a good alternative for your computer and soon for your phone !

@zackwhittaker My recommendation is @nextcloud because it's open, rock sold - never let me down in ~10y of usage - and it's backed by a sustainable business model.

@zackwhittaker Mailbox from germany, because They use Green Energy and value data Protection

@zackwhittaker Proton Mail

@zackwhittaker Google Workspace and M365 -> Nextcloud

@zackwhittaker immich instead of all the cloud image services.

@zackwhittaker pcloud

@zackwhittaker there are some great alternatives here: https://european-alternatives.eu/ and here: https://euro-stack.com/

@zackwhittaker Qobuz instead of Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal etc.

@zackwhittaker
codeberg
syncthing
onlyoffice
navidrome

only one?

@zackwhittaker
even i think one is too few.

i think replacing googled android or iphone with un-googled android or operating system goes as one. there are non-u.s. manufacturers and android variants.

normie smartphones are privacy nightmares.

serious contender is linux distribution. replace windows machine with linux.

@zackwhittaker I’m happy with the service I get from Fastmail. However they’re Australian and email privacy laws there are … so-so.

@zackwhittaker I use Delta Chat for keeping in touch with my contacts. Simple, effective and European.

@zackwhittaker OnlyOffice

@zackwhittaker shout out to @doncow for the all-in-one containerized mail server suite

@zackwhittaker I’ve been collecting Canadian alternatives to US tech: https://worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alternatives

@zackwhittaker rather than picking one, here's a site to choose from:
https://european-alternatives.eu/

@zackwhittaker GrapheneOS, Proton mail, Vaultwarden.

@zackwhittaker Codeberg instead of Github

@zackwhittaker Nextcloud. Works great. Can be self hosted. Lots of add ons

@zackwhittaker
@briankrebs

Sorry... Can't pick just one...

Have been on year-long (+) journey to disengage from any/all US-based so-called Big Tech in each and every way possible...

Kagi search, Tuta mail, Open Street Maps, Card-a-base,...

On-going... 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@zackwhittaker
Immich for photos. Nothing else I've seen comes close in features. Requires self hosting but once it's up and running, it's wonderful.

@zackwhittaker @briankrebs Nextcloud

@zackwhittaker yah, in my local area (us), there are a few engineers started to replace every big tech stuff with foss services and offering them to my local communty.

situation is pretty bad that one journalist friend became too worried and asked me to give access to my own hosted stuff, like matrix, nextcloud, blog, kiwix, etc.

@zackwhittaker Libre Office

@zackwhittaker Nextcloud

Also Vivaldi as a web browser

@zackwhittaker Mastodon ;P
- Nextcloud calendar, contacts, files storage, etc. and with Collabora to work on documents online.
- Mox self hosted mailserver.
- LibreOffice to work on documents offline.
- Home Assistant for home automation.
- Codeberg git server.
- DNS4EU, Quad9, and OpenDNS as DNS servers. LuaDNS and desec.io DNS for own domains.
- Fairphone
- OsmAnd, or TomTom navigation.
- GrapheneOS phone OS.

@zackwhittaker GrapheneOS

@zackwhittaker Univention Corporate Server to replace Microsoft Active Directory. Just ask the Germans.

@zackwhittaker Nextcloud, because almost everyone needs some sort of file sync, and you get calendars, notes, tasks, a collaborative office suite, cookbook, password manager and so much more easily installed.
Yes, there are better standalone options for many of those things, but the ease of setup and use in Nextcloud directly is really nice.

@zackwhittaker #NextCloud by a mile.

Pictures from your phone go where YOU save them, not icloud/gcloud whatever.

Calendar and contacts? Same deal, your hardware. Share them with your spouse! All bog standards

Dropbox? fuck that, YOUR hardware! Syncing clients for every desktop OS and phone.

Sharepoint? no more need.

Collaborative office suite opendocument compatible? Also yes.

Framework for even more shit (matrix, openstreetmaps, mastodon)? AGAIN, YES

100% FOSS, self-hostable, scales? 👍

@zackwhittaker NEXTCLOUD, by a mile.

Pictures from your phone go where YOU save them, not icloud/gcloud whatever.

calendar and contacts? same deal, your hardware. Share them with your spouse! All bog standards

Dropbox? fuck that, YOUR hardware! Syncing clients for every desktop OS and phone.

Sharepoint? no more need.

Collaborative office suite opendocument compatible? Also yes.

Framework for even more shit (matrix, openstreetmaps, mastodon)? AGAIN, YES

100% FOSS, self-hostable, scales? 👍

@zackwhittaker

I ditched Gmail for @Tutanota with my own domain and I'm never looking back.

@zackwhittaker

Notesnook for notes
Ente for pictures
Tuta for calendars

All end-to-end encrypted

@zackwhittaker started looking at Nextcloud to replace M365 for the family. Can’t recommend yet cause we haven’t switched. Already have some Linux in place.

@zackwhittaker Proton app suite is great and replaces a lot of Google app functions (drive, mail, calendar, password locker + VPN as the cherry on top) but with an inbuilt privacy focus and hosting in Europe

@zackwhittaker

Fastmail! Great open source developers, a worker-owned co-op, and it works really, really well!

@zackwhittaker

Fairphone (E/os version)
with
Proton Mail/Drive

@zackwhittaker Signal because it #awesome :D