This is a great list and thanks for posting it.

Also, the pixelfed guy needs to give up full control of his project (no matter how nicely or reasonably he argues "not yet"). I have asked on mastodon and nobody seems to know of anyone else who truly understands the project so if he dies or gets disappeared the project... Dies? Maybe? More concerningly, it isn't open source. He cotes good reasons for this (the massive labor to refactor and whatever else goes into open sourcing a functioning project), but he also occasionally humblebrags about being offered huge sums of money to sell it to corporations. I suspect it will become corporate at some point if he doesn't open source it soon.

I really don't like charts with one option. Digital independence is about choice. Linux Mint or Debian? Matrix or Signal?

I use most of the things on this list, but the key is to not bias. It's like those Lemmy app lists where the author features the one they use at the top.

Nice to see Matrix's Element client on there. Has definitely become my go-to and even managed to get friends, family, and my gaming community on there, replacing Discord entirely

Don't get the EU flag though, we should be pushing for global sovereign alternatives. Thos could indicate the inverse in that these applications/platforms are not useable outside EU which is incorrect, and unfortunate.

I really appreciate this list and use lots of applications like this but I would find it impossible to complety replace YouTube with PeerTube.

I keep seeing different versions of this and instead of posting spinoffs of it, why don't we have one central repository that we keep promoting and improving. This would make it easier and easier for normal people to adopt new and privacy conscious solutions.

Thunderbird is just a mail app, not a mail provider.

Osmand is awesome, but Organic Maps is more GMaps like.

I don’t think Thunderbird is a direct alternative to Gmail. The best alternative is to own your own domain name and use your own email server, but that’s really impractical for most people. At the very least, owning your own domain name that you use for your email is way better than relying on a service that locks you in with their own domain name.

It’s not super easy to set that up, but it’s easier than most people probably think it is. A service with imap support will let you take all your old email with you if you switch providers.

My own email service, Port87, doesn’t have custom domain support or imap, but I’m working to add both of those features. Any service you use should have both of those if you want to be independent.

https://lukakopajtic.com/independence/

KeepassXC for password management.

Here is my list, 15 out of 17 (while 2 are not applicable because I don't use anything like that):

I'm not sure if DuckDuckGo and TMap count because they're both just alternatives but still from big tech.

Just for the record, Immich is made by futo, an American organization.

You can self host it on your own hardware for free to keep your files being on American servers, but it IS an American product.

This isn't to shit on futo or immich btw, immich is amazing software and futo is a great org headed by Louis Rossman, the spearhead of the American side of the right to repair movement.

Edit for clarity: I mention this because of the EU flag in the image, not because this specific post is calling it that away from American products.

Why Linux Mint specifically, why not just Linux? Or if they want to pick a specific distro, why not Trisquel or another FSF-endorsed distro?

Librewolf is not European at all. It's just some custom configuration of FF, which is eminently from an USA Corp. If FF dies, Librewolf dies as well. That's anything but "independence". Same goes for Vivaldi (Chromium) and any other usable browser you may think.

I was about to write a criticism of this infographic then I rechecked and its been updated and fixed my concerns since I last saw it. Good job!

Edit: Okay found some issues.

Thunderbird is american. Its run by mozilla, which is a california based non-profit. So still american not EU. But also its an email client, whereas gmail is an online email service provider. There are EU based email services that should be listed instead.

90% Whatsapp and Steam are hard to ditch