• DigitalDilemma@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Google Tasks isn’t listed here.

    This was something I relied upon heavily. When I de-googled, I didn’t want to just move it to another cloud platform, and as a selfhoster I tried quite a few self hosted solutions. Some were very good, but also quite complicated and filled with features I didn’t want.

    So I wrote my own - Taskpony - and made it FOSS. It evolved into something that’s not a Google tasks copy, but suits my own needs better. Simple, easy, useful. I’ve really enjoyed the process of writing and sharing this.

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    Uni prof here- the one that continues to plague me is Google Classroom. It may as well be the default for my department, which means if I switch to Moodle, Canvas, etc., I also have to manage all the student headaches that come with requiring them to use unfamiliar software. Also have to dip way into my budget for features I’m currently getting for free. Would really like to make a clean break from Google but this one hook is still in me. Blarg.

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      I wouldn’t stress out too much. Take what victories you can. Additionally, while institutional change is hard, introducing your students to LibreOffice and other useful free tools is still a powerful avenue for change.

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    It’s criminal that https://delta.chat/ isn’t named as an alternative chat especially since its in-chat apps (https://webxdc.org/) contain alternatives for half of googles apps but that are peer to peer, e2ee and offline first unlike most of the alternatives in the graphic.

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    I own a Synology nas that i tinker a bit with self hosting stuff, but is there a open source project that makes it so easy and convenient or maybe even better? Cause Synology is cool its stilla big corp that wants to harvest my data.

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    9 hours ago

    How do they list Nextcloud as an alternative to Google Drive but not to the Google office apps? LibreOffice is not really a substitute, Nextcloud Office/Collabora is.

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    Forgetting that immich needs a selfhosted server?
    Thus it aint really an alternative if you really want it to be applicable to the average user.

    • An immich user.
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    Anyone recommending CryptPad as an alternative to Google Docs is pretentious af to me or is only using it on PC. The mobile version of CryptPad is the most unusable clunky bullshit ever.

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      Some people are willing to contend with less perfect UIs to get away from Big Tech.

      The list is incomplete, a bit dumb, and mostly advertising anyhow. Each heading should have many more and often better alternatives.

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    9 hours ago

    Should be said that some alternative search sites, such as Ecosia, share some of your information with their upstream search providers which does include Google.

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      On second thought you’re absolutely right. Report created.

      edit: oh, this is YSK, I was thinking more about IT communities.

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        A lot of these are filler. It’s an add for a specific product disguised as one of this endless lists, but they couldn’t stop themselves from being obvious

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        This is an ad for Tuta, which server side software is, AFAIK proprietary. You cannot self-host.

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        I don’t want brands to think there’s a loophole they can exploit by half-heartedly endorsing FOSS for nefarious advertising. “Coke tastes great with the user agency of Linux” is still an ad for Coke.

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        Yeah and that Tutao stuff looks pretty appealing with those nice bold letters and top placement.

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          I was also wondering about the order of the alternatives.
          It feels like the first entry is the “best” to replace tge google service but IMO some are not even close to other lower placed alternatives.

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    This is an ad. At least tuta marked it but that doesn’t make it way better.

    All YouTube “options” are YouTube frontends. All android “alternatives” are android - which isn’t the guides fault as there are none in my opinion. Still unserious from my point of view.

    It’s once more a catch all “guide” that doesn’t guide but simply mentions enough popular alternatives to get popularity.

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      OP’s account exists for over a year, but this is the only participation in the fediverse ever. No other posts, zero comments… WTH?

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      And as mentioned elsewhere, many cited alternatives are not degoogled at all.

      And once you go that way you should go one step further and look for open source alternatives. I’m pretty sure some listed aren’t that either.

      There are better curated, less biased lists out there.

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    I’m using Gmail as an email client. I tell Gmail to go to fetch emails from my other accounts and so I have unified email. I don’t use @gmail.com as my primary address.

    Problem: from today Google discontinued the feature and they warned me only yesterday.

    Which webmail has almost feature parity with Gmail?

    I need filters and fetching emails from multiple accounts. I have a dedicated server so the part of fetching email can be done from an external program

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      The normal process would be to tell these other accounts to send emails to your primary account. Why would you even authorize another software (or mail provider) to fetch them instead.

      Filters are available (almost) everywhere.

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        my reasoning is that forwarding can fail, while if i just connect to POP and get everything in bulk, i don’t have problems

        also: forwarding changes the original headers, and if i forward spam my provider gets pissed

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        Please don’t just forward all you unencrypted email to the biggest data scanning company in the world

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      I have good experiences with Ionos (with my own domain. But they like to upsell you with stuff you don’t need).
      The Business mail tier also supports Exchange Active sync (flaky on Android. Works well on iOS). The business/basic tier has CalDAV/CardDAV (which I use on Android with Davx5.

      Their spam is a bit overzealous. But if something ends up in there, you A: Can whitelist the sender
      B: Receive an info-mail at the end of the day about new messages in the folder.

      The webmailer is neat. But I rather use Thunderbird.