DeGoogle Yourself

how do I take multiple emails and consolidate them into one ? thats the biggest thing preventing me from degoogling gmail

Why avoid Safari if it’s one of the browsers with best privacy rating?

What’s wrong with Safari?

Nice guide! Lemmy is missing though 🐭. Also, what's the point of moving from Twitter to BlueSky? They are no different. Mastodon is a great option.

KDE is friendlier to Windows users than GNOME, but Mint is still a good option.

I see Qobuz on there. IMHO, Bandcamp should be your first stop when buying music. If it's not on bandcamp, Qobuz seems to have just about everything else, more or less, that someone might want. I've complained about them in the past for making me download my purchases one track at a time, which can be pretty annoying if you're buying a super-duper-deluxe version of an album, but, I am pleased to say, they no longer do this; you can download the complete albums you've purchased in a zip file. But only once. Stuff can disappear for annoying rights reasons, and I think they even say, once you buy your music download it immediately, because it may not be there on a subsequent visit.

I think a lot of these guides could use more in-depth companion guides to go along with it. Changing your email provider for one is not a simple thing and there are concerns like loss of functionality (Gmail is a good product run by a shit company) and also how to make the process less overwhelming. Some services will give you the option to migrate all your emails from Gmail but maybe you want to start fresh, etc. Then there's going to all of your providers and updating your contact email. Again, not as simple as signing up for another service.

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I just tries Lemmy now instead of Reddit 👍

Where are the password managers? When changing your accounts to another email provider, this is a really good time to also make sure all the accounts have a strong, unique password or phrase.

Reddit -> Lemmy is a recent switch that I'm happy with

Correction: Ente is also self-hostable.

Thanks for putting this together. Stuff like this is good for making it more approachable. I definitely have relatives that would benefit from this.

One note though, it would be good if the key included all of the icons and not just the three causes.

As the other commented pointed out, it would also be good to differentiate decentralized services, for example in the category with Mastodon and Bluesky.

This is me, but i did it in reverse. Once windows was behind me it kind of opened up the door to more change. Took me less than a year to arrive at not using my google account at all.

In your guide, Proton's services have the EU flag, but the company is Swiss.

Great guide! Very useful for people discovering a world outside of the GAFAM’s.

I’ve done everything, but leaving Whatsapp is the most difficult one. I use Threema and Signal with my close friends, but I can’t get rid of Whatsapp because of many groups I have to follow but I’m not close enough to people to ask them to switch.

I’d love it if these two chat services proposed a separate app which would be interoperable with Whatsapp.

Yes Meta would still get some of my data, but less than if I had Whatsapp directly.

Also getting Whatsapp business and setting an automatic answer asking people to contact me through mail, sms or other chats is useful.

Leaving youtube is also difficult as Peertube is lacking non tech content like basketball..