I created an infographic of privacy-forward alternatives to Google products…and would love your feedback.

Is it easy to use? Enough white space? Intuitive? Sharable? Is there anything I’m missing?

The infographic image in this post is NOT clickable. The link above will give you a downloadable PDF with working hyperlinks.

Re: the legend, “easy set-up/use” means either that this is a big part of the alternative product’s branding, or I’ve used it myself and found it easy.

  • Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    Hmm…Peertube was so easy for me to search and use—I think a lot of people wouldn’t even know it’s decentralized—but the SearXNG website is much more complicated. I’m looking for non-Google products that are easy for the average, non-tech person. Think SearXNG would work?

    • phantomwise@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 hours ago

      All they need to know is basically “Just pick an instance close to you and be done, and if it ever stops working well just pick another”, which is the same thing as when creating an account on the Fediverse except that instances come and go a lot more.

      So it would depends entirely on whether they can find the list of public instances easily… which is admittedly a problem 😅

      You’re right about the website, there is a link to the list of public instances on https://docs.searxng.org/ but it’s a bit drowned amidst all the other stuff. If I was a regular user I would take one look at the website and run away really fast.

      The Wikipedia page on SearXNG does link it, in the section about instances, but I’m not sure how many people would check the wikipedia page rather than the website

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG#Instances

    • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
      2·
      9 hours ago

      As a software dev… im still too stupid to use searxng. Guess its more of a “If its not that easy I wont go further learning it”.

      Maybe it was a lot of features missing that I missed from Duckduckgo.