this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
63 points (100.0% liked)

BuyFromEU

6617 readers
60 users here now

Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services!

Feel free to post, comment and vote, be excellent to each other and follow the rules.

We also invite you to subscribe to:

Logo generated with mistral le chat Banner by Christian Lue on unsplash.com

founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
 

Just a log of "my transition" and what have works well.

I used Google Maps a lot. I have moved to https://mapy.com/ works surprisingly well for navigation and regular map need, not very strong in POI, but that was expected.

Google Analytics swapped for https://dashboard.simpleanalytics.com/ - should have done this way earlier, just an overall better product for my needs.

Exited Goodreads for https://app.thestorygraph.com/ - zero problems

ChatGPT/Gemini moved to https://chat.mistral.ai/ - this one is a slight downgrade on both functionality and results. (so I am still cheating a bit on this one)

Moved to here, PieFed from Reddit - not regrets.

I was using Brave and Duckduckgo/EcoSia from before. I would consider moving away from Brave for a similar private but European browser.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

mapy.com looks like a rather tourist-centered rendering of OpenStreetMap ? Hiking/bicycle trails seem to be featured very prominently. Pretty :)

[–] anelephant@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

fun fact: mapy means “maps” in Czech. This software is created by seznam, Czech email provider and search engine (seznam.cz). Czechs default to this software (with seznam meaning “a list”). In the past I used to dislike it, but now, with me liking non US software, I find it as a great competitor to Google and other US based companies

[–] VacekH@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago

They was and still are great tourist maps (also offline maps) but they added few years ago a car navigation app with live traffic notifications and reports (like Waze have). And it is really nice! I stopped using Waze and switched to maps.com.