Lol at recommending deezer, the company owned by a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin who donates to the republican party
I’m trying out Filen to replace OneDrive, but it appears to be completely unusable. When mounted as a network drive it takes 10+ seconds to navigate through each folder, and opening files (for example a 90kb Excel file) takes upwards of 3 minutes. Closing Excel then also takes another minute because it has to communicate with the drive to tell it to close the temporary one and all that. Using the desktop app instead of mounting isn’t a viable option because it doesn’t let you open things directly, you have to download and save a file, use it, then manually reupload it again.
Is this just how it is? I’ve found other people with the same issues but can’t seem to see any solutions. People have also reported that it’s unreliable for backups because uploads/downloads sometimes just stop quietly in the background without telling you. Is this all user error? Are these programs vetted at all before being pushed or is not being US-based literally the only thing that matters regardless of any other factors?
I’ll try out Nextcloud and Drime because they’ve been recommended in the comments here.
Weird how the chart just prioritizes other corporations and only shows true open-source or self-hosted solutions when there are no non-US options realistically. Hmm.
What are the missing open-source alternatives ? I dont think there is anything like a open-source Netflix for example.?
Arr suite.
This is an ad made by infomaniak to promote their products. OP, are you affiliated with them?
Disagree with Video Streaming, pirate it instead.
Be careful, Tuta does not support IMAP/POP3, and you’ll have to use their own client.
Wow, thanks for mentioning this, I’m seriously looking at moving away from gmail, and Tuta was my frontrunner. Sad that they aren’t more upfront about this… I see Proton is kind of the same to some extent, but then they have a local bridge application which translates their protocol to IMAP/SMTP. Does anyone have experience with that?
I’ve been using Proton Bridge for over a year and it works really well - lets me use Thunderbird and my phone’s native mail app wihout issues, just remember to keep the bridge app running on your computer.
Don’t use proton if you want to use the normal protocols. I made the error and have just finished getting away a few months ago my recommendation is mailbox.org, really happy with that one.
I don’t know about that but swiss privacy law is about to get so terrible that I wouldn’t switch to it unless they rebase.
Every mail service has a drawback
Posteo can’t do custom domains
Mailbox.org has non-anonymous registration + tracking
Proton is based in Switzerland with horrible incoming privacy laws
Nubo is a startup and unproven security-wise
Tuta doesn’t allow 3rd party clients
Startmail has no calendar
Unless i’m mistaken Proton has just announced they will be leaving Switzerland for Germany.
Thanks for the heads-up about the Swiss laws. I currently use kolabnow which is Swiss, but I don’t know if I hate the changes enough to go through the hassle of the switch.
Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch close to Putin AFAIK. That would disqualify it from this list in my opinion
Just learned about this from this other post if someone wants more details:
https://lemmy.world/post/33642043
Shame, more competition with Spotify would be a good thing.
Qobuz? High quality music. Family plans. Music purchases and audio file downloads. Gift cards!
And curated playlists rather than AI slop.
It comes with a music migration tool as well to transfer all your playlists.
Yeah, except that I deleted my Spotify account before making the switch and lost all my playlists. :(
I’m sure there are some public playlist you used to like that you can migrate. Or have shared playlists with friends that have copied them over into their account.
Yeah, the one playlist I missed I had shared with friends. Just haven’t bothered them about it yet :)
I generally listen more to albums than playlists though, so playlists don’t make all that much of a difference.
Wtf, first time I heard this
Still better than using american services.
Coincidentally an American investment fund owns ~42% of the company and is the single largest stakeholder. Many would say that qualifies this as an American service.
Ok tankie
(Better to use something truly decentralised!)
Truly decentralized music streaming? 🏴☠️
Aye, I’d love that. A Napster 2.0, if you will.
Spotify: acrially a Swedish company, but one of the worst companies out there. I hate Apple but at least they are paying artists better. Spotify actively supports scammers (with AI music and phone farms) and breaks the law by promoting artists connected to their stakeholders.
Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch who funds the US republican party.
Don’t know about the rest. But as far as I know there are no music streaming services with a moral compass.
Is Spotify owned in large part by US média companies nowadays ?
Edit: I guess Jamendo is a streaming service in a way. And also I think Tidal was supposed to be pro artist or whatever. It’s American though I think.
But they are not USA, we have a war to win!
Bandcamp Friday is in two days. Bandcamp (although maybe Tencent or Epic owned) waves their revenue share.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays
Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:
August 1 September 5th October 3rd December 5thBandcamp uses Pacific time to determine when its Friday so always check this site before you do.
Avoid infomaniak. Company is anti anonimity, CEO said only criminals want it. As a result they are supporting the anti encryption laws coming to Switzerland.
Ew.
I switched from Dropbox to Nextcloud, saved a bunch of money and couldn’t be happier. It’s fantastic open source software. I don’t understand why it’s rarely listed in these guides.
Under my Nextcloud provider (Murena - not the cheapest, but they develop my phone OS so I figured I can support them) I also have OnlyOffice running on the cloud, which is great for co-authoring. And I also get e-mail there of course, though I mostly use e-mail from my web-hosting provider. I think Nextcloud also has video conferencing.
For search I use Qwant for now. I like that they’re slowly developing their own index, yet they are less puritan than Mojeek so the results are a bit more reliable. Haven’t heard of Karma before.
IONOS is also a great Nextcloud provider. Can highly recommend.
Thank you, strangely omnipresent being.
generally a good idea to get off of streaming and cloud services for things you can do locally
better security, better for the environment
all the worst companies want you streaming and using cloud services with them, just don’t
Jellyfin servers for your movies and tv shows is the way to go!
How is e.g. streaming from a Jelyfin server better for the environment than e.g. from Netflix? Genuine question? Like, to use Jellyfin you still have to download an entire movie or episode from somewhere, and you’re more likely to download things you don’t end up watching. The only benefit is if you rewatch episodes or movies, but that’s pretty rare and having enough hard-drive space for all of that is probably worse than just streaming it from a centralised location.
Plus Netflix, et al benefit from economies of scale that would probably make their streaming better than you just downloading.
Especially if they still put CDN caches in ISPs…
That said I still self-host tvs and movies as much as possible
The Lemmy icon is not very descriptive for those who do not know Lemmy.
That’s what I was just thinking. People would have no idea where to start. Maybe searching for “mouse icon social network”?
Not sure recommending Swiss services is a particularly great idea from a privacy perspective right now.
They should be avoided if you care about privacy.
