In the context of this community.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I have changed brands on several products because I started paying attention to where the product comes from or what’s its parent company. Fortunately, most of my purchases were already from local or national brands, so it hasn’t been too life changing.

    However, I am now looking at labels way more than a few months ago.

  • Downscaled_Doom@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    I choose more conciously local products in my everyday life, but the the biggest impact was digitally - i completely quit amazon, facebook, google and reddit, and slowly switched to european alternatives. Next step is completely leaving meta (still need to use insta and whatsapp rn). It is a slow process, but deleting my google account after years was scary, yet very rewarding. Thanks to this communities it is actually quite easy now! I am still Looking for a proper google maps alternative through, but i am optimistic that the current alternatives are getting there soon.

    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      About the alternatives to Google Maps…

      Navigation apps are a dime a dozen nowadays, and it really all depends on what you want to get out of it.

      In order:

      Organic Maps

      It uses OpenStreetMaps, which are waaay better than GMaps with finding the nice things of life that are not paid. Such as trails (if you’re in hiking) finding a water fountain in an airport, a public toilet in a town… But no traffic info whatsoever. It’s 100% offline.

      Magic Earth

      Very good driving and general Navigation app, very pricacy friendly, has crowsdourced traffic information, IIRC you can opt out of contributing if you want (they only keep your data for a couple hours anyway). It’ll get you to where you want to have dinner, but won’t help you choose where.

      HereWeGo

      A bit more tracking but still Dutch, so not too bad. Has crowdsourced traffic info, and integrates TripAdvisor scores for restaurants. It’s the only alternative I’ve found with some degree of reviews.

        • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 months ago

          Are we really doing the whole “this community based project producing privacy friendly 100% offline app is from country X”?

          By the look of it the original devs are from Belarus, and are now living elsewhere, including at least one in Switzerland.

          So what?