I finally feel free and in control of my data!

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Noice!

This is the first thing I see when logging into Lemmy, made me pause for a second or two.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wow, that's courageous, well done. I'm envious. I'm still battling with the sunk-cost fallacy mostly related to my youtube account. My gmail just redirects to my new mail address currently, so that's sort of sorted until I've gone through 20 years of created accounts that are linked to it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's part of my issue. I'm a former content creator and still want to keep the videos from those years up and available. I don't really use subscriptions or anything though so I can browse without an account.

    I closed out 2 google accounts entirely this month, and just about finishing migrating various accounts to use my new tuta email. I'm still keeping my last 2 accounts up just in case (I've had cases where very important emails sent from tuta were getting filtered by the recipient, but gmail seemed fine). But on those two accounts, I've totally purged all existing emails, emptied Drive, etc. I'm also on Fi as it's basically the only remotely affordable mobile plan around here. So I'm about as distanced as I can get at this point, but not entirely off yet.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Congratulations! That must have been quite the journey. I am getting close, but I still need to figure out a calendar service that I am happy with that works with my family and it will be hard curb my YouTube addiction.

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    Congrats ! and enjoy your freedom

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I recently did this for one of my accounts. It was quite a few years old, but it still hurt to remove it. Backed up all old photos and said goodbye. I still have a Gmail account, but I hope to transition fully to Proton soon. Congrats, OP!

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    I've been gradually working my way towards this. Recently I switched to GrapheneOS and signed up for Tuta mail. Next step is to build a NAS and set up immich.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Congrats! How many places you had to change login email?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm curious what set of tools and services you settled on using instead.

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    Congrats OP! That's really something!

    For those of you still on the journey, know that you can quit individual google services. For example you can quit Gmail, but keep Youtube etc. This would also allow you to keep play store.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks! I have also ditched all Microsoft services as well as windows, I also installed a custom ROM on my phone with no gapps. Every piece of software I use is foss!

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Congrats! Good job! I'm right behind you. So close...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Congrats! That what I strive for

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    @simop_jo Congratulations and welcome to the freedom side!

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