I switched from Dropbox to Nextcloud, saved a bunch of money and couldn’t be happier. It’s fantastic open source software. I don’t understand why it’s rarely listed in these guides.
Under my Nextcloud provider (Murena - not the cheapest, but they develop my phone OS so I figured I can support them) I also have OnlyOffice running on the cloud, which is great for co-authoring. And I also get e-mail there of course, though I mostly use e-mail from my web-hosting provider. I think Nextcloud also has video conferencing.
For search I use Qwant for now. I like that they’re slowly developing their own index, yet they are less puritan than Mojeek so the results are a bit more reliable. Haven’t heard of Karma before.
IONOS is also a great Nextcloud provider. Can highly recommend.
generally a good idea to get off of streaming and cloud services for things you can do locally
better security, better for the environment
all the worst companies want you streaming and using cloud services with them, just don’t
How is e.g. streaming from a Jelyfin server better for the environment than e.g. from Netflix? Genuine question? Like, to use Jellyfin you still have to download an entire movie or episode from somewhere, and you’re more likely to download things you don’t end up watching. The only benefit is if you rewatch episodes or movies, but that’s pretty rare and having enough hard-drive space for all of that is probably worse than just streaming it from a centralised location.
Plus Netflix, et al benefit from economies of scale that would probably make their streaming better than you just downloading.
Especially if they still put CDN caches in ISPs…
That said I still self-host tvs and movies as much as possible
Jellyfin servers for your movies and tv shows is the way to go!
How’d you obtain the movies in the first place?
You can rip them from blurays.
I don’t run a jellyfin server (yet), but a lot of people torrent their media by using a bunch of arr tools (Sonarr, Radar, Prowlarr, etc.) to do it I guess. So basically sail the high seas with some tools, download Jellyfin on a device (or set a proper server) and you’re set to have your own media streaming.
Bbc iPlayer and ITVX should be on there as well. Although these may be UK exclusives.
By that count you could add France.TV and a bunch of others for each country
Not sure recommending Swiss services is a particularly great idea from a privacy perspective right now.
They should be avoided if you care about privacy.
WTF, why is Pixelfed on this list? smh.
You can run european instances with Pixelfed.
That was my understanding, too. Also Pixelfed was/ is my escape from IG.
Yeah, but it still a broken piece of software that should not be recommended as long as its development team keeps not fixing long-standing bugs.
Isn’t the founder Canadian ? Also it’s a bit silly applying borders to free software
You should also add Proton Lumo which is O/S and has an app. Also add Proton to Email.
Drime is also an alternative to Google Drive
Mistral’s Le Chat search is much better than what’s listed here.
why is search considered hard to switch on the chart?
Search is easy but has high impact.
wtf my brain switched the description of vertical and horizontal i read it again and now it looks right
If people would watch more Arte and Mubi the world would be a much better place, regardless of (or, in addition to) the changes money flows and personal data usage.
The Lemmy icon is not very descriptive for those who do not know Lemmy.
That’s what I was just thinking. People would have no idea where to start. Maybe searching for “mouse icon social network”?
I’m trying out Filen to replace OneDrive, but it appears to be completely unusable. When mounted as a network drive it takes 10+ seconds to navigate through each folder, and opening files (for example a 90kb Excel file) takes upwards of 3 minutes. Closing Excel then also takes another minute because it has to communicate with the drive to tell it to close the temporary one and all that. Using the desktop app instead of mounting isn’t a viable option because it doesn’t let you open things directly, you have to download and save a file, use it, then manually reupload it again.
Is this just how it is? I’ve found other people with the same issues but can’t seem to see any solutions. People have also reported that it’s unreliable for backups because uploads/downloads sometimes just stop quietly in the background without telling you. Is this all user error? Are these programs vetted at all before being pushed or is not being US-based literally the only thing that matters regardless of any other factors?
I’ll try out Nextcloud and Drime because they’ve been recommended in the comments here.
Be careful, Tuta does not support IMAP/POP3, and you’ll have to use their own client.
Wow, thanks for mentioning this, I’m seriously looking at moving away from gmail, and Tuta was my frontrunner. Sad that they aren’t more upfront about this… I see Proton is kind of the same to some extent, but then they have a local bridge application which translates their protocol to IMAP/SMTP. Does anyone have experience with that?
I don’t know about that but swiss privacy law is about to get so terrible that I wouldn’t switch to it unless they rebase.
Every mail service has a drawback
Posteo can’t do custom domains
Mailbox.org has non-anonymous registration + tracking
Proton is based in Switzerland with horrible incoming privacy laws
Nubo is a startup and unproven security-wise
Tuta doesn’t allow 3rd party clients
Startmail has no calendar
Thanks for the heads-up about the Swiss laws. I currently use kolabnow which is Swiss, but I don’t know if I hate the changes enough to go through the hassle of the switch.
Unless i’m mistaken Proton has just announced they will be leaving Switzerland for Germany.
I’ve been using Proton Bridge for over a year and it works really well - lets me use Thunderbird and my phone’s native mail app wihout issues, just remember to keep the bridge app running on your computer.
Don’t use proton if you want to use the normal protocols. I made the error and have just finished getting away a few months ago my recommendation is mailbox.org, really happy with that one.
I have a ProtonVPN subscription, but I think you need to pay for the more expensive tiers, cause the tier I have (VPN Plus 4$/month) gives me complementary mail, but I can’t use the mail bridge as it’s not paid. I think you need the Proton Mail or Proton Unlimited plan to be able to use mail bridge. Proton Unlimited gives you everything (VPN, Mail, Calendar, Drive, Pass, and Wallet). Basically if you just want mail bridge, buy Mail pass, but if you want Mail and more, buy unlimited.
Mailbox.org is what I use, it supports POP3/IMAP (I use it via Thunderbird) and is very cheap, the light package is about 1€ a month for 2GB, 3 aliases (I use anonaddy for free aliases instead), and apparently video conferencing. The Standard package is 2.5€/month with a yearly payment, more storage and gives you cloud storage, online office, custom domain aliases, and uses OpenTalk for conferences.
Thank you, strangely omnipresent being.
Weird how the chart just prioritizes other corporations and only shows true open-source or self-hosted solutions when there are no non-US options realistically. Hmm.
What are the missing open-source alternatives ? I dont think there is anything like a open-source Netflix for example.?
Arr suite.
