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@Valmond @SrMono Most popular out there and one of the easiest to set up / easiest to convince non-tech users to switch over to. Not the best… For me, that award would go to Matrix / Element.

Threema would be second (and should be first), but many will balk at the shocking fact that they dare to ask money to contribute to their development and operation costs…

@dxc @Don_alForno THAT!!!

@nuko147 @SchwertImStein Me neither, but politicians should not be using commercial and closed platforms for communication owned by people like Zuck and Musk that earn money with this… That is something I DO take issue with. And i don’t really see how Bluesky is better than X.

@JasSmith I know. IT Admin myself…

@Kualdir Yep… That’s why I say compromises… With the demise / fusion of Eurocard there are no more alternatives left.

@JasSmith My DNS provider is dns0.eu by the way. On all my connections. Solidly based in the EU.

@JasSmith And you fall in trap many intelligent people fall into… just because YOU may be qualified to discern what is lie and what is truth and know how to verify sources properly, does not mean that the majority of people does and that is where we need legislation to take the helm to prevent greater damage to society as a whole.

“The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action”

@JasSmith BTW… changing your DNS provider is a piece of cake, so censorship on that level would not be very effective unless ALL DNS providers would decide to block something.

@igiIq Looks to me like you have to decide which you find more important:
Security / Privacy / decentralisation (Matrix) or
ease-of-use, probably a larger pool of users and nicer looks (Revolt)

@igiIq Matrix would be another option. Fully encrypted too…

@ShadyQuark By the way… Here in NL the banks switched their Maestro cards over to Visa debit cards which enable you to easily make online purchases and allow me to kick out PayPal.

Visa is still US, though… sigh… compromises…

And you don’t get the purchase protection you get with PP or a “real” creditcard.

@ShadyQuark Stay away from bunq… I say that as a former customer. There was a huge outcry last year in the Netherlands about them.

They flat out refused to help or limit the damage for customers that were victims of fraud.

And that while being the most expensive bank around regarding fees.

@tatann @hamburgkai What are you referring to? The only thing that this says is that they were not privacy focused from the get-go in 2013 (12 years ago!).

Also, please don’t use Wikipedia as single point of truth. I could go in there anonymously and write that Qwant is the worlds best search engine for privacy and nothing else compares or that it is the worst thing since the Stasi. Both statements are untrue. Always cross reference and do some further research.

@Extrawurst @Kualdir For Navigation alone, I find Magic Earth (which uses OSM] to be a perfectly fine replacement, that even offers some features Gmaps hasn’t. Like being able to download whole countries for offline navigation, Driver Assistance etc.

For the reviews… That’s more difficult. https://lib.reviews/ is one attempt, but it has nowhere near the dataset (duh) and the reviews are not directly visible on the map.

@tatann @igiIq Nope, they are not American based… They are based in the Netherlands. They are partially owned by an American Company though. I couldn’t quickly find sources to what percentage.

@JasSmith Well there is a whole discussion to be had about banning media who is spouting lie after lie after lie and are propaganda machines for the respective regimes.

But before you just assume censorship… try it yourself. I can open rt.com, tass etc and search for them.

Sometimes the search result are all nerfed to hell, but they are there.

And some pages (Zwezda) seem to have blocked access from my country at least, but that’s on their site & RT does not have a valid certificate…

@JasSmith @madjo Lemme guess… 'Cause 'Murica is the only country that knows freedom?

If things like that are censored it usually happens on the ISP level, not at the search engine. Those “censored” pages might rank lower but there could be dozens of perfectly fine explanations for that. Mostly because some of those pages know diddly squat about SEO or their pages might be socially relevant but are really bad at / for driving ad revenue.

But calling that “censorship” is IMHO not correct.

@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de Genau dieses… Auch mit dem ganzen Aufruhr um #Firefox die letzte Zeit. Ich glaube, dass die einfach nur wirklich, wirklich, WIRKLICH grottenschlecht mit der Formulierung umgegangen sind bzw. bestimmte für Kalifornien übliche Klauseln einbringen wollten.

Sag mal… was anderes: warum wird Vivaldi als einziger Europäischer Browser neben Mullvad kaum erwähnt?? Auch dort sagt man, sich Datenschutz und Privatsphäre auf die Fahnen zu schreiben und #nobigtech zu vertreten.

@Charger8232 Lists from #Alternativeto (which this is based on) are usually not very reliable and show information that just isn’t correct on a service or often includes services that are not real Alternatives to what you were looking for in the first place. The only thing that helps against that is doing your own research.

To pick out one example (I don’t have time to them all): they list #Posteo as being proprietary which just isn’t correct. That company is as #opensource as they come.