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Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!
If you include Nextcloud Memories for photo management, why not include it for data storage and web office as well?
Pop_OS I not very good at gaming. Try looking into Gardua Linux and Bazzite as they have more modern packages and faster driver updates.
Or Manjaro. Arch purist weeaboos hate it, but it’s made in Germany, is amazing for gaming and has very fast driver updates. Additionaly, the installation is super simple and fast.
In my experience Manjaro only has problems when you use AUR dependencies break because some package hasn’t been updated for Manjaro. Other than that, it’s perfect for me.
The companies below have proven to be reputable and worth supporting.
Spotify
Pays artists $0.0003 per play
Shows ICE ads
Says something about see deep dive for disclaimer, but I don’t see a link in the post body. But interested to see what’s on there.
Edit: found the link
Warning
They pay significantly less royalties, promote AI music, and platform podcasters who spread misinformation - context: https://t.ly/spotify-history. They do offer a superior service, but some people choose not to support them for these reasons.
Yeah so, that doesn’t align with “reputable” and “worth supporting”.
Yeah I’ve been looking to get off Spotify for a while now. Was shocked to see it recommended. It’s a shame tidal removed their “connect” feature, it would have made it so easy
I just checked and the Connect feature in Tidal appears to still be there. I don’t use it though so can’t say for sure.
I switched from Spotify to Tidal and I’ve been really happy with it, but it’s of course American. Deezer and Qobuz aren’t worthwhile Spotify alternatives.
Apple Music is actually better than Spotify, which deserves to sit on the left too along with the American options (no, I wouldn’t move Apple Music to the right)
Unless someone ruins tidal by commenting below, I love tidal.
They pay their artists more
Tidal is great, and their “share with anyone” feature is just flat out 12/10, but I recently moved to Qobuz (French) because they pay the artists around 4 times more than Tidal does. And they’re European.
I appreciate the share with anyone feature as well. I have a few friendships that are largely based on testing cool songs back and forth. This way the only inconvenience is me getting inbound Spotify links.
Artist pay is actually a big factor in comparing the Music Streaming options, with high royalties being a special shout-out. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/music-streaming/
You aren’t wrong. I went back and forth on whether to include them. The reality is that everyone knows Spotify and far better to educate people on why NOT to support them (hence being red and with a disclaimer).
Link for ease of reference for others. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/software/D5JUoM1dZysf7JJgTAWXy/
Oh, how I WISH Qobuz gets the same excellent feature as Tidal has - when you share a link to an artist/album/track from Tidal, and someone else clicks it, two things can happen:
- If they have Tidal, it will just open the artist/album/track in the app.
- If they don’t have Tidal, it will open a Tidal-hosted page with links to the shared content on YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, and a couple of other streaming services.
It just magically solves all the issues with people not wanting to switch because they like sharing their music.
I also found Tidal had the edge in user experience. I’m wondering how Deezer competes, as that is the next one for me to try.
I tried Deezer and Qobuz before choosing Tidal. Deezer music recommendations were barely adequate, but the real dealbreaker for me was their piss-poor Android app. The app seems like it was designed more than a decade ago and never updated, and the in-app navigation is frustratingly unintuitive.
And your thoughts on Qobuz?
I really liked everything about Qobuz except for the recommendations. I swear there’s no algorithm used, it’s completely random. I’d be listening to deep house and it would give me crazy suggestions like Frank Sinatra and aboriginal didgeridoo music, nothing related to house. This was back in March. I’d give Qobuz another try if they did a ton of work on their recommendations.
People increasingly want their voices heard and are taking action by choosing the companies they support.
These can be due to privacy concerns, environmental reasons, boycotting US companies, or other causes.
Doesn’t the premise imply that Spotify should be in the left column instead then?
The service being “superior” or convenient is counter to the argument.
Personally, I would have them on the left column, but there is a general divide in the EU community on whether they should still be encouraged as a “lesser of two evils”. As a compromise, I have left them in with a huge disclaimer. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/software/D5JUoM1dZysf7JJgTAWXy/
Gotcha. Thanks for explaining.
For Linux, there’s also Arch if you know what are you doing. Manjaro might be a good first step into the Arch ecosystem, even if there are obvious differences, as Manjaro is a different distro, not just a (poorly) preconfigured Arch installation line Omarchy.
I would add Librewolf in the browsers and Searx in the search engines.
Honestly if you have to put american things in the change columns then swap spotify and youtube music, spotify is just soo bad
They are there! In fact, Librewolf is listed first as an excellent privacy option - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/browser
Isnt it just a Firefox “fork” with all already available privacy options on ? Is it better than Firefox arkenfox.js ?
arkenfox.js
I believe it is on a similar level, but don’t quote me on that. They are both featured by privacytools and privacyguides. I’ll look to add arkenfox as that was missed.
Why is there no section for alternatives to reddit? We should really push more people into the fediverse.
I appreciate the transparency in this post but I find it odd there are so many American/Canadian options in the change to column.
Why do we hate canada now?
I don’t hate Canada but the sub is buy European… and Canada isn’t in Europe
Not with that attitude.
They’re basically still a british colony
We don’t in fact there are many excellent Canadian options highlighted. And I even had a Canadian version :)
Why? The US is where a lot of technology innovation was directed for a lot of the things being discussed here, so it’s kinda limiting to leave them off. Not every US company is bad.
In the os category, it honestly feels odd that they’re going by the distro location, when every alternative they list is based on Linux, which is just as American as firefox.You might prefer the standard version then - https://www.purchasewithpurpose.io/.
I agree that the OS section needs a lot of work.
I decided to highlight rather than remove, so people can see how it compares to their US counterparts. It is also partially due to the effort required to maintain another full version. The most significant driver for this is to encourage people to move away from Big Tech, and a secondary driver is to move to EU-based tools.
Dude, where has libro.fm been?! That’s the type of thing I have been looking for recently. DRM free downloads and a portion of sales supporting a local store.
Check out Librivox too
One of my favourite finds! Their apps are also fantastic… and an obligatory fuck Audible.
I got to the bottom of the image and Lemmy and Piefed not even on there, ha wtf. I’d add Migadu for email and Kagi for search, both very good value.
Kagi is there for search - will look at Magidu.
P.S. Kagi is US-based, but I personally use them.
The guide doesn’t say what greyed out means. I thought it was for american companies but there are canadian, australian, and eu things greyed out too.
I made a mistake on Vivaldi, but the others are because they are non-EU owned. The website separates the HQ and ownership better, which helps explain this. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
It’s not really a mistake with Vivaldi - sure, it’s an EU-based company making an EU-based browser, but they are using Chromium, which is majority controlled by Google.
That is a big part why Firefox and Firefox based browsers are so heavily favoured on the website.
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Thanks @[email protected] for sharing my guide. Below is the text that followed the original.
I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.
I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.
Details:
- Site - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
- Code - https://codeberg.org/purchase-with-purpose/pwp-website
- Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!
I see there are several comments! I’ll go through it now and respond.
thanks for the guide. Hopefully it will channel millions from greedy business to more sensible companies
Okay, one questian. What about mega.io? I never see anyone talking about them, neither negatively or positively. Are they ok for folk around here, non-foss aside?
Isn’t that the descendant of Megaupload?
The pricing looks good to me… and also the scrolling animation on their webpage.Eyup, it is. I like the plan I have with them, just curious of public opinion…which there seems to be none xD
Vivaldi Mail beats Proton and Tuta because Vivaldi strongly opposes cryptocurrencies / pyramid schemes, the others support it.
Vivaldi mail requires you to be an “active community member” in the Vivaldi community
Tuta and Proton are a no-go for me for free tier (or at all) allowing me to use third party software for their email. I like to use Thunderbird and Vivaldi’s email client to combine my inboxes. Unfortunately that doesn’t work with Proton and Tuta.
i don’t use vivaldi mail (aside from the mail client in vivaldi) since i use my own domain but wouldn’t just using social.vivialdi.net count for that? if you’re using mastodon anyway, at least…
Vivaldi mail requires you to be an “active community member” in the Vivaldi community
Shit, didn’t know. Thanks for pointing that out.
I recently got into Vivaldy myself and was bummed to find that out
it’s not for everyone but instead of youtube and apple music, i suggest https://idagio.com/ too
i was a big fan of flickr before they got bought by yahoo and enshittified
