[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I think they are trustworthy and the sexy alternative to Gmail. I've been testing both Proton and Tuta as my replacement. Proton is more expensive, but provides more services. Tuta is smaller, cheaper and gives off a user centric vibe. Proton seems to be emulating bigtech a bit too much with their release of a privacy chatbot today. I'm personally leaning towards keeping Tuta over Proton.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I'll give it a look tonight. I was looking at Floatplane, but they simply don't have many creators.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I'll checkout those three suggestions later today

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Which Youtube alternative do you prefer to use and why? I've found PeerTube, Odysee, and Rumble. Thoughts on any of these?

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I've been using DuckDuck Go since leaving Google Search, but that seems to be the first step away. I'm not keen on their AI assist. I tried Start Page, but the first four results were ads. I don't mind paying a small fee for good search. So Brave Search or Kagi?

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I've been asking the same question. I am trialing both and while I love Tuta, Proton seems more polished, I can set mail rules for tags, and seems smoother. Over all the suite for Proton is more robust, but Tuta's price is hard to beat.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've been enjoying GrapheneOS. It's seems to fun well for me and the battery life seems to be great. I made a point to not use any Google apps so that means no RCS for me. My car doesn't have Android Auto so I'm not sure about a replacement.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What alternative would you suggest over DuckDuckGo? I'm always looking to learn more.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I've uninstalled all those apps!

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Hey, thanks! Yeah I think we were all naive at the dawn of social media and I stupidly trusted big tech. I've been getting rid of all big tech over this last month that and it's been kind of exciting finding FOSS and decentralized alternatives. The discourse seems more genuine and interactive. Hopefully it won't change.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It was a lot of work. I had the benefit of having time off and recovering from spinal fusion to make this happen. I deleted many of my accounts that I used gmail for logins. My gmail address that people have had for years is now forwarding to my custom domain. For YouTube I've been using PeerTube and not using YouTube at all.

Meta is hard as I manage pages for work, but I currently have no friends which caused my wife to get messages from friends asking if we were getting divorced 🤣. I've brought my wife, sister and mom over to Signal so far by SMS is difficult to get people to change. I just cancled my Whatsapp account and if people want to connect they can reach out.

[-] pahulf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I replaced Google Keep with Logseq. I was looking at Obsidian, but found out it was not FOSS. I love then Daily Note that Logseq uses.

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submitted 1 week ago by pahulf@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

I feel like #degoogle seems to embody a greater movement to leave bigtech. Here are the crazy things I've done over the last month or so.

  • Installed Arch on my laptop about a month ago
  • re-engaged my Mastodon and Bluesky while deleting Twitter and unfriending everyone on Facebook
  • Installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel
  • Moved email to custom domain and Tuta from Gmail
  • Moved to NextCloud in place of Google Drive
  • Moved photos from Google Photos to Ente Photos
  • Moved my PKM and Notes to Logseq
  • Moved from Chome and Google Search to Firefox, Tor and DuckDuckGo
  • Just deleted Reddit and started a Lemmy account.

It's been a ride and I'm open to other suggestions and guides.

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