F*ck Google, here are some self-hosted alternatives.

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

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  • PhotoPrism

    AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

  • PhotoPrism (Docker image) > Google Photos (it's using Go so it's probably also more resource friendly than many alternatives)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • OwnPhotos

    Self hosted alternative to Google Photos

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • Yacy

    Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • WordPress

    WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • Umami

    Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • Nextcloud

    ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Moodle

    Moodle - the world's open source learning platform

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • Mail-in-a-Box

    Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • LibreTranslate

    Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • PeerTube

    ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

  • YaCy > Google (Search Engine) PeerTube > YouTube LibreTranslate > Google Translate NextCloud > Google Drive WordPress self-hosted > Google Sites umami > Google Analytics ownPhoto's > Google Photo's LibreOffice Online > Google Docs Mail-in-a-Box > Gmail Moodle > Google Classroom

  • librephotos

    A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.

  • FYI ownphotos has moved to librephotos

  • Mailcow

    mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

  • want to mention mailcow as well, was pretty straight forward to setup with docker and their documentation.

  • libreddit

    Private front-end for Reddit

  • That's why we use custom front ends for Reddit. (https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit)

  • Kindmetrics

    Kind metrics analytics for your website

  • Kindmetrics (Docker image) > Google Analytics (it's using Crystal so it's probably more resource friendly than many alternatives — furthermore you don't need a cookie warning since it's working without abusing cookies)

  • Collabora Online

    Collabora Online is a collaborative online office suite based on LibreOffice technology. This is also the source for the Collabora Office apps for iOS and Android.

  • Collabora (Docker image) > Google Docs (the LibreOffice Online repo is currently stalled, isn't it? Either way I heard good things about Collabora)

  • Canvas LMS

    The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.

  • Canvas (Docker image) > Google Classroom (Moodle is popular but you should really have a look at Canvas. You can find many resources about it at the instructure website [the company that's maintaining it])

  • Searx

    Discontinued Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

  • I've been happy with SearX : https://github.com/searx/searx

  • Piped

    An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

  • I use https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped It works better for me than invidious

  • duckduckgo-locales

    Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  • Why not use DuckDuckGo for search?

  • DecSync

    Synchronize RSS, contacts, calendars, tasks and more without a server

  • As for RSS, there's a fork of spaRSS for Android and Feedreader for Linux which uses Decsync to synchronize to a local directory. You just sync your spaRSS feed to a local directory on your phone, sync that directory to your PC, then use the same directory for FeedReader on your PC.

  • Photonix

    A modern, web-based photo management server. Run it on your home server and it will let you find the right photo from your collection on any device. Smart filtering is made possible by object recognition, face recognition, location awareness, color analysis and other ML algorithms.

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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