Couldn't agree more. I went from a Google fan boy to a Google skeptic during his reign.

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Copied that list.

So posts are going up, users go down. I know that millions have been purged, but the loss looks much more organic.

Verdammt krank, dass dessen Anhänger USD 100.000.000 an ihn (oder sein "PAC") gespendet haben.

Or simply that prices have become insane. Good phones used to be around 400, taking me a few days to think about it and say yes. Now they are beyond 1000, so I will do my best to avoid having to upgrade and go with custom ROMs again. In the meanwhile, we also lost exchangeable batteries, external SD cards, and microphone jack, and we gained more Google spyware and bloat.

That is pretty fucked. Disgusting.

For Search I use Duckduckgo (free).

For Mail, Calendar and Contacts I use Fastmail (free or paid, I use the paid version).

For file storage there's plenty of alternatives (Dropbox etc.)

For browser I use Edge, but it is also built on Chromium. I will make my choice once the recent Web Environment Integrity topic has become more clear.

Pretty incredible. What happened in early 2022? It was not yet the time of GPTs, so?

Too bad as I just found it a week ago, but totally understandable.

Hhaa, what do you post about?

As someone signing up for lemmy.world, my reasons were:

• It sounds official or at least less obscure than ".ml" or "sh.itjust.works"
• It sounded inclusive (we're all part of the world, so to speak)
• It was in the list of default instances of Connect for Lemmy

Otherwise, I didn't give much though to which instance to pick.

For me it is lack of commercial interests (ads hidden in post), lack of bots, and lack of "funny meme and jokes' posts.