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.

  • catdog@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    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).