It's been 20 days since I started my journey to use GrapheneOS. And Im thriving! I've removed Google Play services from my phone and set up my PC to automatically redirect away from all Google products. I've also left mainstream social media years ago and have now shifted my social media presence to Fediverse.
In case you're keen to do the same, here's a list of the alternatives I'm using now (this is list is not exhaustive):
Google Docs/Sheets: Cryptpad.fr (https://cryptpad.fr/)
Social Media: Mastodon (come and join us at https://infosec.exchange)
Email: ProtonMail (with personal domain)
Authenticator: Aegis (https://getaegis.app/)
Photo Management: Immich (https://github.com/immich-app/immich)
Google Translate: Libre Translate (https://libretranslate.com/)
Youtube: PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org/)
Search Engine: SeaRx (on the way to be selfhosted and DuckDuckGo)
Web Browser: Waterfox (https://www.waterfox.net/)
Phone: grapheneOS (from a refurbished Pixel 6)
Google Maps: OpenStreet Map (https://www.openstreetmap.org)
Calendar, Online storage: ProtonDrive, Proton Calendar
App stores: Droidify (F-droid) and Aurora store for the occasional non F-Droid apps (like the ProtonMail client)
Messaging: Matrix (https://matrix.org) Session (https://getsession.org/) and Signal
Notes: Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/)
Here are the top data services I'd love to see come to the fediverse next year:
- OpenLibrary. https://openlibrary.org/ . A great collection of books, movies, audio, other.
- OpenStreetMap. https://www.openstreetmap.org/ We need a good `Place` vocabulary, and OSM has a great one.
- MusicBrainz. https://musicbrainz.org/ A great way to represent `Audio` objects cross-service. The best music encyclopedia on the planet.
- Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Main_Page For, well, everything else.
Sabías que cada vez que agregas información a Google Maps, no solo contribuyes a un futuro distópico alimentando la IA Bard de Google, sino que también entregas la propiedad de esa información a la empresa?
Por qué contribuir a una plataforma que no es objetiva y que genera injusticia social, si podemos en vez usar https://www.openstreetmap.org, una iniciativa ética, sin fines de lucro, que cumple las mismas funciones? Te invitamos a probarla, contribuir y ojalá incluso donar para que siga creciendo
Acabo de terminar de organizar un viaje a Extremadura utilizando https://www.openstreetmap.org/ para comprobar rutas y sin necesidad de Google Maps.
De camino he descubierto una app libre de seguimiento deportivo con la posibilidad de crear recorridos sobre mapas https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OSMDashboard
También estoy echando un vistazo a https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd como posible sustituto del navegador de Google Maps, aunque tengo que estudiar su controvertido uso de algunos módulos no libres.
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