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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€“] atro_city@fedia.io 14 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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€“] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good job. However, I fear these directories are popping up like mushrooms, and none of them will end up being comprehensive and up-to-date.

I can remember of:

And now https://european-alternatives.cloud/

[โ€“] vinushkah@europe.pub 1 points 1 month ago

This is a very valid point. It would be great knowing that there's a single source for everything related rather than risk efforts being duplicated.

[โ€“] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know what makes you think they will end up being not up-to-date nor comprehensive.

Do you think this is bad? What would you suggest instead?

[โ€“] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is not bad per se, and I welcome all contributions. All of these are valuable.

I think the effort might be being duplicated instead of focusing on collaboration.

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

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

It doesn't have to hurt if they make datasets easily exportable so they can share. Open Source FTW

[โ€“] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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€“] mech@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I like that the author has a "Social Media" category on his website that's just empty :D
https://www.the-morpheus.de/