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.
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Use Elinks or Lynx directly in the terminal 😎
Is it practical? No! Does it make your life easier? The opposite. But you can sidestep the whole browser industry while feeling like the biggest contrarian hacker kiddie out there and that’s a premium experience fellas
Maybe because I’m in Japan, but mapy is unfortunately useless. Waited 30+ seconds and it wouldn’t load any map here (or even when I zoomed and moved a bit from Germany initially). Is really like to replace Google maps but it’s rough (it’s also what I use for public transit routes and schedules)
Japan works fine in Mapy and, regarding your other comment below, it does show English labels when they’re in the OSM data.
You should investigate why it doesn’t load for you (network issues, firewall, adblock, DNS/VPN etc), cause it seems to be what you’re looking for, although I can’t estimate how well public transit is implemented for JP.
on the search front, you might like to check out SearxNG. It can be self hosted, or you can use a pre-existing site. one such site is searx.space (don’t know if this instance is euro or not). It’s an aggregate engine, and it collates from so many different sites that are customisable
My Google Maps alternative is organic maps https://organicmaps.app/de/ just love it
My Organic Maps alternative is CoMaps https://www.comaps.app/.
Some context: https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/.
Thanks I didn’t know that
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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).
