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Version 2 of the European app alternatives. Feel free to share it :)

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

I didn't know Soundcloud was European. Been using them for a while, my only complaints are: lack of ability to report much of anything, lack of moderation, and a system that incentivizes poor quality uploads of popular songs to avoid automated detection.

If you let it autoplay after picking a popular song you might get a list of bangers or you might get sped up trash uploads with an unfortunate high pitch tone that I imagine must have been outside of the uploader's hearing range. Occasionally it plays some guy reading phonetic scripts like he's just learning to read for the first time for an hour, but it made it into the list because it's titled after a beatles song.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

It's pretty telling that, as a European, I've literally not heard of any of those European alternatives.

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Some of these aren't European so I wouldn't feel too bad. PixelFed is American, for example.

[–] MSugarhill@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 45 minutes ago

Canada is in North America, tbf.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 3 hours ago

It tells more about you. Deezer, Soundcloud, DeepL and Bolt are pretty popular globally.

[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

That doesn't mean that they are subfunctional though.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Last time I checked ecosia gets it's search queries from Bing, just a heads up. Other than that I'd say it's really solid.

[–] NewDay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

There is Mojeek that is based in UK and have an own search index and web crawler. I wouldn't recommend it. Mojeek.com

Just wait for this https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 3 hours ago

Qwant and Swisscows are in the same basket too.

[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 20 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Peertube has this fediverse problem. You google it, go to the webpage and instead of getting a list of promoted videos, you get an explanation of what it is and a manual on how to actually join, starting with „select a pot“. You then get to search the list of pots that all have like 10 viewers and 5gb upload limit. I stopped at this point.

That being said, i really would like an European youtube alternative, but not off the „provide your own hardware“ kind.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 6 points 13 hours ago

Exactly my problem why I'm not really getting into Lemmy either, same with mastodon. The whole decentralization standing in the middle of it all is just annoying.

Also yeah, Peertube did not even look like a competitor at all. Same with Threema with it costing 6 euros to use

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Joinpeertube.org doesn’t have the best onboarding, but take a look at the pinned post at !peertube@lemmy.wtf for a few good servers to choose from.

[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Thank you

Edit: this is much more helpful than the website

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is missing Spotify and TomTom unless I am missing something

[–] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the feedback. It is not supposed to be a complete list. It's a start. You can find more alternatives in our database: https://buy-european.net/

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

One more request then! If appreciate it is your not put text everywhere without additional information. For example the AI filler on the browser page is just noise. Is rather only have the list than contract filters:

""" There are several compelling reasons to opt for European web browsers. These browsers not only prioritize user privacy and data protection but also foster innovation and support local technology ecosystems. """

Thanks for the project by the way!

[–] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for the feedback! We decided to go for it as we want to make sure that the database is not specifically designed for tech-savvy people. We want to give basic information to make the move to different solutions accessible and easy to understand for everyone.

[–] DaanBanaan@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Organic Maps ftw.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago

especially Organic Maps, it's got the most user-friendly UI out of the three

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[–] starman@programming.dev 6 points 16 hours ago

Isn't mapy.cz just an OSM wrapper, but proprietary?

[–] Dop@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where's Signal (or molly if you need foss)? Signal is an non-profit organisation, so I'd say it can hardly be branded 'from' anywhere unless you're talking about servers location but then...

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Signal is centralised, and as such the location of the service operator matters a lot.

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Calling Peertube a Youtube alternative is just wrong. It is an alternative in theory but it probably doesn't even have a milionth of the content that Youtube has.

[–] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

That's the problem with "the winner takes it all" on the Internet. Which European alternative would you suggest instead?

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Im European and the EU can go fuck themselves.
Plenty others to choose from.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Missing out the big one here - Spotify is also European fyi.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

Why don't we include nestle then?

Just because it is European, doesn't mean the company is worth a shit dripping down a wall.

Spotify is a shit company. Pays artists by far the lowest in the industry (especially if you take into account their scummy minimums, catches, and terms for smaller musicians), injects shitty AI songs into Spotify-made playlists so they won't have to pay the artists the little they do, gives "donations" to fascists, and heavily invests in fucking war companies including partnering one who is essentially trying to make "the dark night" tracking machine to pair with AI assassination drones.

(Also side note, have you noticed all of these scummy surveillance companies making their names into very well-known references to pop culture so that all news stories on them are essentially lost to the pop culture void when searching for them? Palantir, helsing, etc...)

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I told OP this in previous post; Spotify gave money to Trumps' inauguration. That's why it was removed.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Shameless plug for Navidrome

Want your music, always available. No ads, no enshitification. Maximum quality, always reliable?

There is only one clear winner for me.

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

As a musician, I don't like SoundCloud. The free upload limit is way too small, their compression is not great and every time you do anything they try to sell you one of their subscriptions, which also cost way too much imo.

If other musicians didn't use it as much I would have already thrown it out long ago.

[–] NewDay@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Unfortunately, the PeerTube community is inactive and small. There are basically no interesting videos at all.

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