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picks of the day:

@nextcloud - Create your own personal cloud

@peertube - Fediverse alternative to YouTube

@fdroidorg - FOSS alternative to Google Play

@openandroidinstaller - Makes it easy to install de-Googled Android ROMs

@microg - Develops FOSS alternatives to Google's Android services

@calyxos - De-Googled Android OS

De-Googled Email:
@hellomailo
@fastmail
@mailbox_org@mastodon.social
@Tutanota
@thunderbird

De-Googled Android phones:
@iode
@volla
@e_mydata
@murena
@nitrokey

@FediFollows that's a lot of accounts!

What about @IzzyOnDroid, it's one of the most popular F-Droid repos

@sbug @FediFollows @GrapheneOS It has sandboxed Google Play services so not really degoogled. I love it btw.

@islamicaudiobooks @sbug @FediFollows That's not accurate. GrapheneOS doesn't come with sandboxed Google Play. It comes with a compatibility layer. Users need to choose to install sandboxed Google Play. None of that is included as part of GrapheneOS. Multiple of the operating systems listed above use Google services like default including /e/. /e/ includes substantial privileged access integrated into the OS for Google services too. GrapheneOS doesn't use Google services by default.

@GrapheneOS @sbug @FediFollows Thanks for the correction. I also mistakenly understood that your apps are distributed through Google Play only but that's not the case!

@islamicaudiobooks @sbug @FediFollows Our apps are provided via our app repository. There are alternate releases provided via the Play Store with a `.play` suffix at the end of the app id. For example, app.grapheneos.camera is provided via our app repository and included in GrapheneOS. app.grapheneos.camera.play is a separate release for the Play Store. It's important to keep them separate to avoid conflicts and so Play Store policy won't ever impact the apps we include in GrapheneOS.

@GrapheneOS @sbug @FediFollows Do you have an app repo link that F-Droid users on other phones can add?

@islamicaudiobooks @sbug @FediFollows We use our own modern app repository system, not F-Droid. F-Droid doesn't provide the security properties and a bunch of functionality we require. Our app repository client can be used on other Android 12+ operating systems. Android 11 is the oldest release of Android with security support so it won't be long until it supports all supported releases.

github.com/GrapheneOS/Apps/rel

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@FediFollows@growyourown.services Just had a good read about @nextcloud , can't believe I haven't tried that on my Pi yet. That's my next project sorted!

@FediFollows @fastmail

Long time user of Fastmail here. (6 years, I think?)

I just wanted to comment that I've been happy with their service 😊

@FediFollows I'm really happy with #Posteo for email (and contacts, calendar). For email clients, @thunderbird, @geary, @EvolutionGnome, @k9mail .

@FediFollows

I just wanted to say that Fastmail is great. So glad I made the switch a few years ago.

Free email is actually expensive.

@fastmail

@FediFollows also half de-googled YouTube (clientwise that is): NewPipe, an app you can get via fdroid to access YT without the ads and tracking.

@grob @FediFollows Try @libretube for a fully #degoogled #YouTube app experience. It uses #piped servers as YouTube proxies.

@FediFollows been using NextCloud for years and it's pretty okay for the most part but it's also heavy, requires Apache, and tries to do far too much in one package.

I'm planning to look at Seafile as an alternative for file storage/sharing which is my primary use of the thing.

@FediFollows my personal favorite is @protonmail . Wife and I do run @calyxos on our phone which is amazing with @fdroidorg

#foss #privacy

@ozoned @FediFollows @calyxos @fdroidorg

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@clacke do you know of any alternatives to Google’s image search?
@clacke that’s text-to-image search, not image-to-image search (I guess that feature is called Google Lens within its image search product suite)
@tom Ah, that's what you meant. Yeah, I'd like an alternative for that too, I don't have one to recommend.

@FediFollows Linux. Everywhere. On phones, desktops, laptops and servers. Linux. 😀

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micro absolutely doesn't implement FOSS alternatives, they're just a wrapper around the same closed source services that's a bit less opaque.

@FediFollows @nextcloud @peertube @fdroidorg @openandroidinstaller @microg @calyxos @hellomailo @fastmail @mailbox_org @Tutanota @thunderbird @iode @volla @e_mydata @murena @nitrokey
Just to say that #Thunderbird has changed my life. Brilliant service, provides upgrades over my previous provider I didn't even know I needed and is a joy to use.

@FediFollows @Tutanota didn't know anything about @Peertube. This is nifty, but too bad we can't just magically have all the Youtube content available here. I got 0 search results for "cold start" that have anything to do with trying to get cold engines to start up.