Migrating away from Google is damn hard, when alternative email providers are crap about spam and phishing filtering, alternative Maps applications fail searching location names, and alternative office apps are slow and buggy.
#DeGoogle

@osma Recommend trying MXRoute. My experiences here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/comments/t7d0tr/lessons_learned_two_weeks_after_moving_my_family/

Migrating away from Google is damn hard, when alternative email providers are crap about spam and phishing filtering, alternative Maps applications fail searching location names, and alternative office apps are slow and buggy.
#DeGoogle

@osma Yes, map seems hard for me as well, but email? I never had an google mail so maybe I don't know what I am missing, but I never had a problem with the alternatives ...
I'm using "Posteo".

Migrating away from Google is damn hard, when alternative email providers are crap about spam and phishing filtering, alternative Maps applications fail searching location names, and alternative office apps are slow and buggy.
#DeGoogle

@osma Magic Earth has been pretty good for me as a google maps alternative, especially for transit. their privacy policy is good, and you can use the maps offline. they have headquarters in Amsterdam. (not FOSS, but nothing's perfect)

note that, like every other service i have used *except* google maps, it still has some outdated POIs, so a search may show locations that are permanently closed, etc. sadly i still use google maps in a private browser window, first, to figure out such info.

Migrating away from Google is damn hard, when alternative email providers are crap about spam and phishing filtering, alternative Maps applications fail searching location names, and alternative office apps are slow and buggy.
#DeGoogle

Migrating away from Google is damn hard, when alternative email providers are crap about spam and phishing filtering, alternative Maps applications fail searching location names, and alternative office apps are slow and buggy.
#DeGoogle

@osma Proton mail works fine for me for emails. So do Firefox and Ecosia for searches. In any case, you pay for Google bells and whistles in ways that are not worth it. I'm happy to compromise a bit on convenience if it means I'm not supporting the tech bros.

Gmail is very good. The label mechanism works well especially wrt archiving messages, the spam filtering is top tier, the apps are quite good and so on. Its only problem is that it's by Google. Anyway, I have tested many other providers and none have come close.
@kasimir

Migrating away from Google is damn hard, when alternative email providers are crap about spam and phishing filtering, alternative Maps applications fail searching location names, and alternative office apps are slow and buggy.
#DeGoogle

So, I gave up on trying to make OsmAnd, OrganicMaps and the like work for me, I appreciate good UX too much to suffer them. Fortunately there is also HERE WeGo, which turned European when Nokia acquired Navteq. Thanks, Nokia.

@osma What are you using it for? I find OrganicMaps acceptable.

@osma What are you using it for? I find OrganicMaps acceptable.

@kallekn @osma Have you tried Magic Earth?
IMO it’s by far the best OSM app for navigation.

@kallekn @osma Have you tried Magic Earth?
IMO it’s by far the best OSM app for navigation.