Before I yap, I recommend ASAP to determine your threat modeling and how much convenience you want to sacrifice for your OpSec. Using Google and YouTube and other corporations is valid, and using only Tor & I2P connecting to privacy friendly services is valid too. Use email aliasing, addy & simplelogin are good but duck.com works also. It’s drastically better for your OpSec (operations security), and in case of a data breach, it’s also best to have that random email alias that forwards to your Proton. I also like Tutamail, no IMAP/SMTP because of the encryption but it’s really nice and the guys behind it are cool. Using ProtonVPN/RiseupVPN for speed is good, but Orbot and Tor is best for your OpSec. Also, don’t forget Odysee! If your favorite YouTubers are on Odysee, which mine are, use it! FreeTube is cool, too.

I HIGHLY recommend privacyguides.org for getting into degoogling and improving your privacy and OpSec, and good luck! :3

I smell a fresh Lemmy account ;)

Also check out !organicmaps@sopuli.xyz for a foss map app.

So, itˋs hard to fully switch to, but it has a growing community and there are some good creators on there (although, mostly Linux/FOSS enthusiasts) - so let me plug !peertube@lemmy.world

Other than that, I still have a lot of gmail adresses, switching them will be a pain, since i will have to go through what I used them for. My main mail is with a German provider, though (posteo.de)

I am in the process of setting up my own suite of fediverse stuff to host, these days. Have been learning a lot by dealing with frustration these past days :D (I only had some basic experience self-hosting, itˋs been a learning journey)

On PC: Linux, LibreOffice, LibreWolf, BetterBird, Lemmy, Invidious, Le Chat + Ollama (w/ Open WebUI), Proton stack, moved to Helix for development rather than VS Code.

On phone: EMUI (yes, I'm changing my phone soon 😂), F-Droid + Aurora, IronFox, SimpleX + Signal, Loops, Pixelix, Organic Maps and HERE WeGo (for local transport), pipepipe, DeepL.

Planning on getting the upcoming Fairphone 6, if the rumours are right, and it comes out in the summer. I'm also considering the Shiftphone 8.1, but I haven't heard much about it before this year. I previously wanted to get a Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it, but I'd rather not have my money go to Google. Although, I currently rely on Google Wallet to pay without a card, but I might just go back to carrying my wallet with me rather than send more data to Google about my purchases.

I am on a very similar journey - good luck! WhatsApp is going to be the most difficult to shift I suspect, but I've changed my pic to let people know to contact me on Signal instead so let's see if that helps!

This post has motivated me to delete my chatgpt account :D cant yet beat my reddit addiction sadly

Olvid is a niche product, do you speak French? If yes, !forumlibre@jlai.lu , !france@jlai.lu and !technologie@jlai.lu might interest you

I am also on the wagon. I just deleted Reddit to come here.

The only thing i need, is to switch my Outlook mail to something else. Any ideas?