It is stunning how little awareness there is in activist circles regarding the use of #FCKINGGoogle.

Stop sending me open letters for #palestine, queries rgarding #climateactivism etc. from #googledocs. They end up in my garbage instantly, no matter the content.

If you have not even BASIC awareness of the danger you put me and others in by exposing us to #SurveillanceCapitalism, if you have no idea on how much you feed the #policestate with that information, give your very opponent an edge in your dear cause; if you have not even investigated a tiny tiny bit what privacy friendly alternatives there are out there, what are you even doing as an activist?

@CryptPad
@digitalcourage
@Framasoft
#privacy #activism #Google #fascism

I have a problem. An addiction to trying new word processors (aka #writing apps).

I've got #Scrivener, #LibreOffice, #OnlyOffice, #Pages, #Byword, and recently worked in #MSWord, #GoogleDocs, #Ulysses, and #AiWriter. Oh, and I've played around with #Zettlr, too. I can't stop.

I'm a fan of #markdown and #opensource. Go ahead, make my life more complicated...what app do you think I should try?

Wow so French and German government agencies are building a joint #opensource, self-hostable #GoogleDocs replacement.

I would ofc prefer this being built by someone independent and *funded* by the public, but hell this does feel cool nevertheless:

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/

Factors:
1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.
2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people need the fancy features advanced text editors introduce.
3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.
4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.
5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.
6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but is still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after three years of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)
6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.

TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.

#plaintext #emacs #txt #notepad #bloat #bloatware #saas #googledocs #msword #microsoftword #rant

RE: https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6uy06mot0

?!?!

Who has worked with @numerique_gouv #Docs or @cryptpad Documents?
For easy, low-threshold inter-institutional co-authorship (parameters are usability for authors used to #GoogleDocs as much as #datasecurity):

My always up-to-date table of now 942 verified media accounts in the #Fediverse (which is not on #GoogleDocs anymore) is beginning to be helpful:
https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

I added a custom search builder (above the table at the left) that gives powerful options to filter the whole database.
There are now also the first bridged media accounts from #Bluesky und accounts from other software in the #Fediverse (like from @index): Search by Software.

Next is styling the page a bit

Адміністрація Трампа підтвердила, що #DOGE за допомогою ШІ спостерігає за комунікаціями працівників федеральних агентств.

ШІ ⁠Маска шукає ворожі до Трампа та його політики повідомлення. Перевіряються #MicrosoftTeams, #Signal і навіть #GoogleDocs, що дозволяє швидко виявляти потенційні ознаки непокори чи нелояльності.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/

US-Regierung sucht angeblich mit KI in interner Kommunikation nach Trump-Kritik

Staatsbedienstete in den USA sind laut einem Bericht gewarnt worden, dass die Regierung mithilfe von KI in internen Kommunikationskanälen nach Kritik fahndet.

https://www.heise.de/news/US-Regierung-sucht-angeblich-mit-KI-in-interner-Kommunikation-nach-Trump-Kritik-10345526.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Ich suche eine Alternative zu Google Docs, die folgenden drei Kriterien genügt:

* Hosting in der EU
* Möglichkeit, Texte per Link zum Bearbeiten mit unangemeldeten Personen zu teilen
* Android-App, die meine Augen nicht beleidigt

Muss nicht gratis sein (Testphase wäre praktisch). Muss außer Text und ein bisschen Formatierung (fett, kursiv, so was) nicht viel können (Tabellen, Gleichungen, Code sind nicht wichtig).

Ich dachte an iA Writer, aber die haben (aus verständlichen Gründen) keine Android-App mehr.

Ich teste gerade OnlyOffice. Das ist okay, aber besticht durch eine 90er-Jahre-Optik und Fonts, die irgendwie alle pixelig aussehen. Es funktioniert, aber macht keinen Spaß. (Außerdem lädt mein Testdokument gerade nicht.)

Hat wer noch eine Idee?

I'm doing a test to replace Google Docs with Proton Docs.

There are fewer features, but it's less cumbersome, and you can collaborate using a simple link without creating an account

: Nowa alternatywa open source dla Google Docs i Notion wspierana przez Francję i Niemcy.

Docs to internetowy edytor tekstu oparty na współpracy, który jest wynikiem wspólnego wysiłku prowadzonego przez rządy Francji (DINUM) i Niemiec (ZenDiS).

Jest to dobra alternatywa dla popularnych usług, takich jak Notion, Google Docs i Outline.

Platforma oferuje możliwości współpracy w czasie rzeczywistym, elegancki minimalistyczny interfejs i wszystkie niezbędne funkcje, których możesz potrzebować.

Co najlepsze, Docs jest open-source na GitHub i może być hostowany samodzielnie, co czyni go realną opcją dla lokalnych agencji i firm.

Możesz przetestować Docs w swojej przeglądarce, odwiedzając tę stronę:

https://impress-preprod.beta.numerique.gouv.fr

używając loginu:

email: test.docs@yopmail.com
hasło: I'd<3ToTestDocs

https://www.howtogeek.com/docs-alternative-google-docs-notion-france-germany/

Możesz również zgłosić się na ochotnika do pomocy w tłumaczeniu Docs na inne języki tutaj: https://crowdin.com/project/lasuite-docs

Oryginalny wpis opublikowany przez @ueeu tu: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/114185263451441196

https://lukakopajtic.com/independence/

Very nice list of app alternatives for big tech. Would also add #Syncthing as an alt (p2p) for #GoogleDrive, #digiKam as an alt (offline) for #GooglePhotos / #ApplePhotos, and #LibreOffice as an alt (offline) to #GoogleDocs.

I spent the last half hour trying to figure out how to convert markdown content into a Google doc, trying different tools like VS Code. Well if only I'd known that Google Docs has a built-in support for "pasting as markdown."

#GoogleDocs #Markdown