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.

  • pahulf@lemmy.worldOP
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    17 hours ago

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

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      4 hours ago

      There’s plenty… Most of those I use is on this list… Remember that even DDG could be giving away private info, through fingerprints or other means… I use more search engines, to spread my risk.

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      16 hours ago

      I like searxng, you can self hosted and its very private. It will pull all results from google, duckduckgo, bing, etc.