For photos https://pixelunion.eu/ is EU alternative built with Immich. For email with custom domain name I picked mailbox.org
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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please donโt use brave, itโs just bloatware:
https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1649276/you-need-to-stop-using-brave
sorry, i can not offer you a european alternative at this point. there might be, i just donโt know
Vivaldi's a good European web browser
It is Chromium, however, and not fully Open Source. I recommend Librewolf or Waterfox, open source forks of firefox.
OP posted an android homescreen.
Waterfox is on mobile
I'm still pretty new to the foss community (just installed Linux Mint on a VERY old computer so I can get some experience under my belt!) But I was wondering if you knew of a way to download Waterfox without using the Play Store? Thanks!
I don't know where they release it tbh, i use Fennec on mobile which removes the mozilla tracking from Firefox just like Waterfox does, but you can install it from f-droid
Zen browser, while privacy isn't its main focus, has an awesome user interface and a bunch of QoL features and I ended up switching from Firefox.
you can install Ublock origin for the privacy, and change a couple settings to make it on par with librewolf
also no inbuilt ai as far as i know.
~~Zen is Windows-only~~
Edit: I checked their web and they do have a Linux and Mac version, but the other versions are pretty hidden.
Zen is on Linux as well, i'm using it on Linux
FWIW, itโs not only on Linux but Mac as well.
Maybe replace Brave with Cromite (assuming that OP needs Chromium based browser)? I'm not sure if Cromite is European but it's not controlled by a company and it's FOSS
Brave๐บ๐ธ -> Vivaldi๐ณ๐ด, Qwant๐ซ๐ท, Ecosia๐ฉ๐ช, Mojeek๐ฌ๐ง, Waterfox๐
Tiktok๐จ๐ณ -> Loops.video๐
Kagi Translate๐บ๐ธ -> DeepL๐ฉ๐ช (but from my experience kagi is wayy better)
What is TikTok doing there.
Does it matter? The question is whether there is an alternative. I donโt know of any, but I have no need for tiktok-like apps anyway.
There are alternatives, but nothing on a large scale. Video hosting is really expensive and hard to monetize. Loops would be the largest.
I actually read the post wrong tbh. Thought this was a list of European alternatives.
Alternative to Ente is Immich which I have recently set up. You need to run your own server but itโs 100x better and itโs open source
Just FYI both ente and immich are US based, open source and both can be selfhosted. I tried both and they are both good.
If no data reaches the US (because it's self hosted) and no money goes to the US (because it's open source), does it matter that the developers are in the US?
It probably doesn't, and that was not my point. I am okay using US soft if it's open source. That said US based project might be under certain pressures from the govt which adds a slight amount of uncertainty.
Ente can be self hosted?
Yes and they made it super easy. I mean kudos to ente basically making it easy not to pay them (I pay them anyway ๐)
https://ente.com/help/self-hosting/
Yup! I run it on my VPS for my family with an Exoscale S3 bucket, it's excellent. I only pay for the storage we use.
I really want to stop using Ente and start using Immich (overall, I want to self-host a lot of services with a server in my own home), but right now I'm not in a position to set up that server yet. Do you have any other alternatives to Ente that don't require self-hosting?
Camera could be replaced by a European camera maker like Leica.
I would start with
- Brave -> Vivaldi
- Tiktok -> No Tiktok (wtf)
- Kagi Translate -> DeepL
These are the easy ones; then you can consider moving others.
You have frdroid, fennec for fdroid(a build of firefox without the proprietary stuff) is probably the best browser you can use. Brave is full of bloat, crypto, etc, the ceo also funds anti gay orginizations. Install a few extensions like ublock, decentralize, sponsorblock, etc and youll get the best web experience that is currently possible.
similarly, kagi funds brave so less directly funds all the same stuff as them
What's the grayed out one?
Games? Brawl stars replacement? Anything?
I have no clue how to check if they any of these are European alternatives but to start Ironfox, and Cromite are fire!
Same for Loops by Pixelfed too (Tiktok alt)
FairEmail (For any email providers you have all in one place while respecting your privacy)
Accrescent app store is being built up as a proper alternative to Play Store too