I used Google Maps a lot. I have moved to https://mapy.com/ works surprisingly well for navigation and regular map need, not very strong in POI, but that was expected.

Google Analytics swapped for https://dashboard.simpleanalytics.com/ - should have done this way earlier, just an overall better product for my needs.

Exited Goodreads for https://app.thestorygraph.com/ - zero problems

ChatGPT/Gemini moved to https://chat.mistral.ai/ - this one is a slight downgrade on both functionality and results. (so I am still cheating a bit on this one)

Moved to here, PieFed from Reddit - not regrets.

I was using Brave and Duckduckgo/EcoSia from before. I would consider moving away from Brave for a similar private but European browser.

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[–] abacabadabacaba@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Can anyone recommend an app for finding routes using public transport? I am currently using Google Maps, but I'd like to find an alternative, preferably not US/big tech. Tried mapy.com, it didn't work.

[–] FortyTwo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I like HERE WeGo lately, haven't really noticed differences for public transportation with Google Maps. I only have experience using it in my country, though.

[–] eltoukan@jlai.lu 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I love citymapper, however it only covers a limited number of urban areas, is UK based and most importantly got bought by Via Transportation in 2023 (US based).

It seems like many city/regional operators have their own apps, this might be an option for you ?

You might also want to have a look at the apps that use transitous.org (listed on their homepage). Amongst them is cartes.app, which is a really exciting open source gmaps alternative wannabe, hosted in France (see cartes.app/roadmap for more technical details). Although it's still a wip, they've made great strides recently and I've started using it to replace some of GMaps' use cases. The only issue is, errrr, there's no English interface for now :) It's still a small team, so they're keeping internationalisation for later.

[–] MSBBritain@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

From my experience public transport was super hard to find a good solution too. I ended up going with Citymapper which works amazingly well. It's a British company from London but unfortunately uses Google Maps API I believe, so not truly independent.

Haven't found anything even close to a replacement though.