Isn’t Claude French? I thought that was European already?
karma search? never heard about it…Aaaaannd it’s not available in my country.
Moving to lemmy is the hard one? I mean I just made an account and started posting. Did I skip a step or something?
it’s hard because you’re leaving the critical mass of users for niche communities. Lemmy only really works for large communities like this one.
The Fediverse is “hard” because you have to pick a server. And that’s apparently enough to stop normies from going any further.
Just a quick reminder, if you give yourself some time and a small budget (or upcycle older tech), there are more good (sometimes great) alternatives to everything listed here that you can build yourself (often pretty quickly, thanks to docker)
Would prefer Canadian
Having Lemmy represented as an icon does us no favors. Hard to search for an icon when you don’t know what it means.
For a cloud service, as such, I’d go for Nextcloud - though it is getting to be a huge behemoth again. Others exist though, and self host your nextcloud is even better!
With all the encryption backdoor talks in the EU, the 18+ age check from the UK (OK technically not EU), I am not sure that “service located in the EU” is actually a good thing anymore.
BeReal and Soundcloud are huge commercial and proprietary services. The criteria on the left are quite misleading, when not applied to all applications that are recommended.
Deezer is 41 percent owned by Access Industries (an American company) which is owned by a Russian billionaire.
There appears to be a lot of issues in this image…
There’s no simple solution to what this image proposes.
There is no simple solution to most of society’s issues.
Don’t let perfect stand in the way of better.
Spotify is European.
So what, it is an incredibly evil company.
That’s a real Sophie’s choice there. Or, reverse Sophie’s choice. Spotify isn’t American, but it’s also a horrible horrible company to support.
Piracy is my choice here.
Also thrift stores are full of CDs and hipsters still haven’t gotten to them so they are pretty cheap!
Piracy doesn’t have an easy way to discover new songs (somethind Deezer is much better at than Spotify). I’ll probably try Qobuz soon.
Discovery isn’t a huge part of how I consume music, but your point is well taken.
I’ve been using hooks into last.fm to suggest things I might like, and it’s worked pretty well.
Their headquarters are still in EU but if you look a little closer almost everything else is US business, incl. Trump & Thiel. Servers are Google’s.
So “boycott US digital services” still very much applies.
A lot of European tech companies rely on American infrastructure, since there aren’t many EU alternatives to what AWS and the like offer.
But I see your point
Does anybody know a Youtube that has videos about tech tinkering, crafting, and making art? I’ve tested out Odysee once, but at the time it was full of right-wing xenophobic stuff, which seemed to keep the creative crowd away. Also, Odysee was unusable from a slow mobile connection since it often didn’t offer a lower bitrate stream…
The best way to handle transitioning from YouTube is to use GrayJay. Follow creators that you like and when any of them have a platform on a different service, subscribe to them there.
Besides YouTube, it supports any PeerTube instance, Patreon, Twitch, Nebula, Odysee, Rumble, Dailymotion, Ted Talks, etc.
Well there are the various PeerTube instances, of which tilvids is one I use a bit. You do need to search specific tags for the things you like. Here is a list of fediverse branches
Does PeerTube have a better discovery algorithm than Mastodon? I have found simply tags and newest doesn’t work for me.
I currently only use it to subscribe to 1 user I know from youtube 😅. I have him on my mobile app Newpipe, where I have a few youtube and peertube subs on
Cool graphic, but I’m not sure if arte and mubi are comparable to Netflix and co, at least not for me as a casual viewer. Their selections seem to be more niche.
When the product is the content or the features rather than the platform this chart is useless.
You don’t sit down and go “I’m going to stream video”, you go “I’m gonna watch Star Trek” or “Hey, there’s a new season of Severance”. It’s the same with chat and social media. It’s not “I’m going to instant message”, it’s “I’ll text mom”.
You use what you gotta use. You don’t decouple from US big tech by boycotting it, you decouple by having EU big tech (at which point you’ve fixed nothing) or by competing with them with a different standard, which is possible but very, very hard and way outside the typical thought processes and organization patterns of most of these alternatives.
See also: why Bluesky entirely replaced Mastodon as a Twitter alternative despite showing up a year late with no pre-existing working standard.
This chart is less “yay let’s make things better” and more “woof, things are dire”.
US Digital Services is a very specific thing already, and not in the way you’re saying. It was basically hijacked to turn into DOGE. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a boycott of that too (whatever that may look like) but… This isn’t that.
I really wish there was a better version of these kinds of graphics that showed all options better, I guess that would end up being more like a website because there’s so many and followable links are nice, it would end up looking like one of the privacy guide websites but I wish there was something that was less privacy and alternatives focused and was more about giving more options in general because not everyone cares about privacy specifically or being green or whatever else.
