9mo ago

Just deleted my Google account!!!

I haven't used it much if at all in the past year, but I finally took the last step and deleted it! Sorry if this is low effort I just don't have anyone I know to share it with.

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Congrats dude! 😄 👍 I'm replacing all their service a bit at the time, is nice to see people able to completely switch off.

I have literally everything tied to gmail, no idea how to escape
- if you switch to protonmail itll foward emails from your gmail to proton, then you can slowly move stuff over
  
  You can probably (never used proton) set up a filter on the new address to mark or move stuff that was originally sent to gmail, too. Helps visualize the accounts you need to migrate/update.
- It's a slow process. Took me 2 and a half year to completely move away from Gmail. Worth it.
  
  Why was it worth it? What benefits did you gain from the change?
- What service did you move to?
  
  I went through my stored logins to migrate the vast majority of my accounts one by one (and deleted quite a few old and forgotten ones in the process). Took a couple of hours, but went mostly well.
  For everything that I might have missed, I have gmail set up to forward everything to my new address. The new address (I went with posteo myself) has a filter that automatically moves stuff addressed to gmail to a separate folder. Whenever something ends up in there, I go and migrate or delete the account.

Congrats!

Congratulations! And thank you.

Great step

That’s awesome 👏

Is there a viable Photos alternative? I was thinking of setting up a NAS on my RPi but it would need to be for other family members too.
- I use immich personally, super easy to use and very fast, even on the shitty old laptop I use.
  Edit: the shitty old laptop is hosting the server
- Ente it you're looking for a paid service. (For me, photos are too important to self-host.) They're end-to-end encrypted and both server and clients are open source.
  
  too important to self-host
  For me it's the other way round. My photos are too important to trust any corporation - no matter how trustworthy they say they are.
  
  I second Ente, absolutely awesome products and great Devs always listening to feedback from community. Unlike other services and products, absolutely everything is open source to 🙌
- The Proton Drive app can automatically sync pictures from your phone. The Proton ecosystem as a whole is a good alternative to Google's.
  
  On that note tho, I kinda hate how this is only offered for photos. Why can't I sync any folder I want?
- Another vote for Immich. It's a really nice experience on both the web and app.
- Next cloud all the way. I run it in my garage and I grab the free Android app from fdroid
- I recommend Immich
- I am still uploading to Google Photos currently, but have setup a backup of my photos once a week using SMBSync2 on Android, to my Raspberry Pi NAS. I have two external hard drives connected to my pc, so when I login to my pc there are two automated backups that happen to copy anything newly added to the nas to the two hard drives.
- @mjq07
  https://stingle.org, https://piwigo.org, and https://immich.app might be worth a look.
  I used NextCloud, myself.
  @Blisterexe @degoogle

Has anyone figured out how to transfer a Gmail account's Android app purchases to a new Google account that uses a non Gmail email address? This is the only reason I still keep my Gmail, having moved to proton 4 years ago.
- Did you delete Gmail but keep your Google account? If so, I didn't know this was possible

Must do the same soon

BTW How do you keep on syncing your calendars and stuff?
- A Linux Wizard does not require a calendar. They simply arrive exactly when they are supposed to.
  
  lol . I'm just a baby tux apprentice ...
- I use my self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this. Then sync to mobile using DAVx5. Calendar and contacts.
  
  i think is the best way possible. does it have any charge?
- I self host with Baikal. On android, you need Davx5 (on fdroid) to tie it into the OS but on your desktop (windows and Linux at least) calDAV will just be an option. Baikal supports CardDAV for contacts as well if you're into that.
- Idk I don't have a calendar, but I hear nextcloud is great for that
  
  I use nextcloud for all these google things.
  Currently using murena.io as provider
- Proton Calendar works great for me.

Nice. What services did you use to replace?
- I now use Firefox, brave search, protonmail and immich
  
  Nice I'm like 75% migrated away from gmail I still use Google maps. I don't use Google photos. For search I use ddg. I'm trying to move away from play store using Droid instead but that's a tough one.

It's a normal thing and there's no need for you to brag. You are expected to delete every account you do not use.

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