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Hello everyone, I was looking for a good open source alternative to the usual services, any suggestions?

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[–] MaddestMax@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

BetterBird for desktop. FairEmail for mobile.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use the same combo.
I find FairEmail + Fossify Calendar/Contacts + DAVx5 works great on my android.

[–] MaddestMax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Exactly the same here. Works great.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have betterbird on my laptop and Thunderbird on my desktop. Honestly I don't really notice a difference at all.

I am going to have to re read what is different.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For those that are interested here's a featuretable comparison between Thunderbird and Betterbird
https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

That is a long list of things I never noticed. Funny that. I use both often, they seem the same to me, must be features that just dont matter to me.

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same combo, but I'd really like to switch away from BB/TB.

[–] MaddestMax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Same. I haven't found a decent TB/BB replacement yet though. Sad.