Just a log of “my transition” and what have works well.

I used Google Maps a lot. I have moved to https://mapy.com/ works surprisingly well for navigation and regular map need, not very strong in POI, but that was expected.

Google Analytics swapped for https://dashboard.simpleanalytics.com/ - should have done this way earlier, just an overall better product for my needs.

Exited Goodreads for https://app.thestorygraph.com/ - zero problems

ChatGPT/Gemini moved to https://chat.mistral.ai/ - this one is a slight downgrade on both functionality and results. (so I am still cheating a bit on this one)

Moved to here, PieFed from Reddit - not regrets.

I was using Brave and Duckduckgo/EcoSia from before. I would consider moving away from Brave for a similar private but European browser.

  • arrrse@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    You could try Vivaldi as your browser, its Norwegian afaik. Ive been using it for some time on my phone and only problem is that i cant use qwant as default search engine, but ecosia is on the list so no problem

    • catdog@lemmy.mlEnglish
      121·
      2 days ago

      Vivalid is European. The downside is that it’s engine is Blink, which is in near full control of Google, thus killing web standardization.

      Depending on your priorities you may be better off using Firefox (FOSS with mother organization in USA), or a fork of Firefox (not USA, but smaller projects with associated risks and drawbacks).

    • anOminousOtter@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      There is a way to add custom search engines, if you have any that are not on the standard list. And at least on my phone Qwant is in the default list of search engines. Maybe they added it at some point

      • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yes, I did have qwant be my default search engine by setting it as a custom one (PC and mobile). I think it is now a build in default now (just checked on mobile) which makes things much easier

    • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’d second Vivaldi! When I first jumped to it ~5 years ago, it was a bit sluggish but they have done a lot of work to speed things up and now it’s fantastic. Super customisable and has so many different features that being forced to use Edge on my work PC is ultra annoying.

      The only issue is that it is chromium based. Whilst thats good for website compatibility and chromium is technically open source, Google does own it so they could potentially include things people don’t like and generally fuck up things up.