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[โ€“] persona_non_gravitas@piefed.social 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Some of these have been for privacy and FLOSS ideology over the past 5 years, but anyway...

Fully deleted:

Windows -> Linux (mostly; have a Windows VM I don't use and needed hubby's Windows installation for the MSM download tool for some old phones a while back).

Instagram -> nothing

WhatsApp -> Signal, Matrix/Element, SMS (friends understood, lost some community groups and annoyed others)

LineageOS w/GAPPS -> LineageOS for MicroG -> DivestOS (RIP) -> GrapheneOS (-> trying to move to UBPorts Ubuntu Touch)

Twilio Authy -> Aegis

BitWarden -> KeePass (this one was purely because disentangling from US services and it still hurts)

Google Maps -> Organic Maps + browser Google Maps without location

Still have but use very little:

Facebook -> nothing (marketplace and some niche old-person hobby advice)

Gmail -> Proton -> Tutanota (lingering registrations, occasionally collaboration through Google Drive)

Google Drive -> Hetzner-hosted Nextcloud (for calendar, contacts, backups, etc)

Reddit -> Lemmy -> Piefed (kept for some hobby groups I might need to ask sometime)

Youtube -> Arte, local public TV streaming (YLE Areena) (for what I first check for passive entertainment)

[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is piefed different? I tought it was another domain is all.

[โ€“] persona_non_gravitas@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It's very similar, part of the "threadiverse", Fediverse services intended for Reddit-like UIs, like Lemmy and kbin/Mbin. Both use ActivityPub so you can read&post either on either.

They both have their pros and cons. Piefed has better moderation tools, multi-communities, and combines crossposts, among some other things; downsides, it's written in Python which is... weird, though early metrics suggest it uses less resources. Lemmy is more established, has better app support, and is written in Rust, which, prestigious. But honestly, a lot of it comes down to community and politics.