Services listed in the Wired article, “How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To,” along with others I’ve added as I learned about them:
- Book clubs (Goodreads alt), e-reading devices, book services, audio books
- StoryGraph / https://www.thestorygraph.com/
- Kobo / https://www.kobo.com/
- Storytel (audio books) / https://www.storytel.com/tv
- Browsers
- Vivaldi / https://vivaldi.com/
- Waterfox (UK) / https://www.waterfox.net/
- Code repositories (aka GitHub)
- Codeberg / https://codeberg.org/
- Email (and calendars, but you’ll need to explore the sites)
- Proton / https://proton.me/
- Tuta / https://tuta.com/secure-email
- Hosting, website generation and management
- IONOS / https://www.ionos.com/
- Instagram/social photo sharing
- Pixelfed / https://pixelfed.org/
- Internet connection
- EUTELSAT / https://www.eutelsat.com/en/satellites.html
- Maps
- Magic Earth / https://www.magicearth.com/
- TomTom AmiGO / https://www.tomtom.com/en_us/navigation/mobile-apps/amigo/
- HERE WeGo / https://www.here.com/products/wego
- OpenStreetMap / https://www.openstreetmap.org/
- Movies, music, and TV
- Plex / https://www.plex.tv/
- Jellyfin / https://jellyfin.org/
- Office (word processing, spreadsheets)
- LibreOffice / https://www.libreoffice.org/
- Photo editing, visual editing (Photoshop, Adobe products)
- Affinity and Affinity Suite / https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
- Search
- Qwant / https://www.qwant.com/?l=en
- SearXNG / https://searx.space/ | https://docs.searxng.org/
- Startpage / https://www.startpage.com/en/
List of lists:
- https://github.com/anitwek/alternatives-to-us
- https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction
- https://european-alternatives.eu/categories
- https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
A visual guide to switching services from this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1jhvd58/your_guide_to_moving_away_from_big_tech_and/
