Version 2 of the European app alternatives. Feel free to share it :)
Peertube has this fediverse problem. You google it, go to the webpage and instead of getting a list of promoted videos, you get an explanation of what it is and a manual on how to actually join, starting with „select a pot“. You then get to search the list of pots that all have like 10 viewers and 5gb upload limit. I stopped at this point.
That being said, i really would like an European youtube alternative, but not off the „provide your own hardware“ kind.
Calling Peertube a Youtube alternative is just wrong. It is an alternative in theory but it probably doesn’t even have a milionth of the content that Youtube has.
That’s the problem with “the winner takes it all” on the Internet. Which European alternative would you suggest instead?
There is no real YouTube alternative, unfortunately. The content makes a video platform great. No alternative video platform is anywhere close to YouTube in content diversity.
It’s unfortunately a very different situation to most other things. For example you can “simply” convince your circle of friends to use Threema. Try convincing your favorite Youtubers to post on any alternative platform and see how far you get.
I’m not saying PeerTube is bad, but if I was a regular person that wanted an alternative to YouTube, going to PeerTube would be an annoying experience that will probably turn me off from it. You have to let people come with the appropriate expectations.
For maps I’d also like to add Organic Maps, OsmAnd and Magic Earth.
Aren’t almost all of these quite terrible?
DeepL is a good translator, though it has a more limited set of supported languages
It’s pretty telling that, as a European, I’ve literally not heard of any of those European alternatives.
https://delta.chat/ is also European but is decentralized unlike threema which means you don’t rely on one company to keep the servers up or your communications stop working.
Im European and the EU can go fuck themselves.
Plenty others to choose from.
