DeGoogle Yourself

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Some ideas 💡 (not mine) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I mostly agree with the list, but given Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and pays artists less than Apple Music, for music streaming I went the other way.

Looking forward to Bandwagon catching on, and help recording artists cut the middle men out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Caveat emptor buying music from Qobuz, always try bandcamp first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Signal is too pedestrian. Without decentralization, your chat isn’t private enough as you don’t control the meta or the servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think that in browsers it would be better than at least they added to Librewolf, it is the best browser based in Firefox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What's the best email to use? Anyone have suggestions? usability? I haven't changed because I just end up with decision overload / paralysis.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly out of all those switches email is the one I've always struggled with. I feel like that one would take a ton of effort to switch over my accounts on various things to a new email. If anyone has any advice or ways to make that easier I'd love that as otherwise I'm still stuck with Gmail.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

My main suggestion is to start, and to start earlier rather than later. If you have an email account you don't like, every time you express that it's associated with you means you'll have to make one more update in order to completely switch.

I decided to switch around Black Friday when there was a discount for a paid subscription, and then to try to avoid using my old email account unless I saw a website reference it (like if I had to log in or specifically check for an email).

I feel a lot more comfortable using email than I used to (although I still try to avoid using it), so switching has improved my quality of life overall.