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Just stumbled upon https://european-alternatives.cloud/en.

The site is online since 10 February and thus far from offering a large number of alternatives, but seems interesting.

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[โ€“] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As long as it doesn't use LLM/ML spewed out images and text in their articles (if there are any) and doesn't promote it either then it'll be worth it. If not it'll be the same old shit Alternative To has devolved into.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I wish it were an alternative:

  • it doesn't allow contributing
  • the search isn't front and center
  • it's not opendata nor opensource
[โ€“] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't judge too early as it has just started. This guy asks to open an issue if you find mistakes, and I would assume they are also accepting new proposals. But the site is 12 days old.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

I see. Alright, that's really early. I didn't find a place to contribute though. Please tell me the code is on Codeberg?

[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

M e t a

Love it though. Alternativeto by itself is good too since it supports European alternatives too, but can't hurt to have more options.

[โ€“] B0rax@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Actually it can hurt due to fragmentation and not all of them having complete data sets.