Just a log of “my transition” and what have works well.

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.

  • abacabadabacabaEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 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.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      It depends on where you are. Here in Germany Google Maps is kind of trash for public transport as it doesn’t have every connection available. The Bahn and the local providers have better systems.

    • eltoukan@jlai.luEnglish
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      2 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.worldEnglish
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      2 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.