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What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself? (reddthat.com)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.

What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don't you like, would you recommend them?

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[–] AlexWarburton@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Google Search -> Ecosia, Qwant Browser -> Vivaldi Mail, Calender -> Proton* Drive -> Proton* DNS -> Quad9 Notes -> Joplin VPN -> Proton LLM/AI -> Mistral Translate -> DeepL Maps -> Here We Go Dall-E etc -> Stability Matrix Kindle -> Pocketbook

*Planning to move everything to a NAS with Nextcloud and synch in with Jottacloud as a backup.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I see from the "View source" option that your comment has everything in a neat, line-by-line fashion, though the final markup is decidedly not.

So, a pro-tip I've noticed from my own commenting experience: even if you have a line break, Lemmy (for some stupid reason) won't apply one when rendering; so if you want it to show, you have to use two line breaks, though then there will be an extra half-line or so that you probably never wanted.

For example, don't do

Line Item 1
Line Item 2

but rather do

Line Item 1

Line Item 2

Yes, I agree it's rather stupid.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

It's the way Markdown works, for reasons, which is what Lemmy uses for its comment syntax.

If you want a regular line
break, you can put two spaces
at the end of a line.

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Holy shit I've been using markdown message boards for years and
you just blew my mind

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah I know, and I don't like that limitation. Lol. xD

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense here. Codeberg uses a Markdown flavor which honors single line breaks and it kind of surprised me how well that is working. Like, if you're used to Markdown, you can put those two spaces and they're just ignored. If you're not used to Markdown, it works like you'd expect.

I guess, the downside is that either each client needs to configure their Markdown renderer to behave like that, or I guess, the server software has to pre-process the Markdown to add in the double-spaces.
That's more of a problem for Lemmy than it is for Codeberg, because there is a number of different clients available.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 minutes ago

Didn't know that Codeberg did that. I'll have to add that to my list of reasons why I love Codeberg. Lol.