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I'm trying out Filen to replace OneDrive, but it appears to be completely unusable. When mounted as a network drive it takes 10+ seconds to navigate through each folder, and opening files (for example a 90kb Excel file) takes upwards of 3 minutes. Closing Excel then also takes another minute because it has to communicate with the drive to tell it to close the temporary one and all that. Using the desktop app instead of mounting isn't a viable option because it doesn't let you open things directly, you have to download and save a file, use it, then manually reupload it again.

Is this just how it is? I've found other people with the same issues but can't seem to see any solutions. People have also reported that it's unreliable for backups because uploads/downloads sometimes just stop quietly in the background without telling you. Is this all user error? Are these programs vetted at all before being pushed or is not being US-based literally the only thing that matters regardless of any other factors?

I'll try out Nextcloud and Drime because they've been recommended in the comments here.

Weird how the chart just prioritizes other corporations and only shows true open-source or self-hosted solutions when there are no non-US options realistically. Hmm.

Disagree with Video Streaming, pirate it instead.

This is an ad made by infomaniak to promote their products. OP, are you affiliated with them?

Be careful, Tuta does not support IMAP/POP3, and you'll have to use their own client.

Bandcamp Friday is in two days. Bandcamp (although maybe Tencent or Epic owned) waves their revenue share.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:

August 1

September 5th

October 3rd

December 5th

Bandcamp uses Pacific time to determine when its Friday so always check this site before you do.

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch close to Putin AFAIK. That would disqualify it from this list in my opinion

Spotify: acrially a Swedish company, but one of the worst companies out there. I hate Apple but at least they are paying artists better. Spotify actively supports scammers (with AI music and phone farms) and breaks the law by promoting artists connected to their stakeholders.

Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch who funds the US republican party.

Don't know about the rest. But as far as I know there are no music streaming services with a moral compass.

Avoid infomaniak. Company is anti anonimity, CEO said only criminals want it. As a result they are supporting the anti encryption laws coming to Switzerland.

I switched from Dropbox to Nextcloud, saved a bunch of money and couldn't be happier. It's fantastic open source software. I don't understand why it's rarely listed in these guides.

Under my Nextcloud provider (Murena - not the cheapest, but they develop my phone OS so I figured I can support them) I also have OnlyOffice running on the cloud, which is great for co-authoring. And I also get e-mail there of course, though I mostly use e-mail from my web-hosting provider. I think Nextcloud also has video conferencing.

For search I use Qwant for now. I like that they're slowly developing their own index, yet they are less puritan than Mojeek so the results are a bit more reliable. Haven't heard of Karma before.

Thank you, strangely omnipresent being.

If people would watch more Arte and Mubi the world would be a much better place, regardless of (or, in addition to) the changes money flows and personal data usage.

generally a good idea to get off of streaming and cloud services for things you can do locally

better security, better for the environment

all the worst companies want you streaming and using cloud services with them, just don't

The Lemmy icon is not very descriptive for those who do not know Lemmy.

You should also add Proton Lumo which is O/S and has an app. Also add Proton to Email.

Not sure recommending Swiss services is a particularly great idea from a privacy perspective right now.

Spotify is Swedish? Why is it listed next to American companies?

Mistral's Le Chat search is much better than what's listed here.