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.
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.