I’ve been sifting through my digital footprint for a while now and I’m getting to my old accounts that I’ve mostly forgotten about. I thought it would be fun if we shared what we delete, you just might jog someone else’s memory of an account they still have floating around.
Today: -Amazon -PayPal -Ubisoft
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I’m slowly de-Google-ing. Today, I nuked one of two accounts. Next up is cutting off the Nest thermostat, and automating it with my local Home Assistant server. (I’ve never run Windows at home, so I can’t delete it.)
ETA: Forgot to note I’m switching to a European email provider.
Nice try feds!
I have not deleted so many apps and accounts, but I have stopped using them or reduced the usage.
Windows 10 -> Linux but Windows 10 is still installed on another disk so technically it is dual boot even if I have not used Windows for months.
Office -> Libre office
Gmail and Hotmail -> Protonmail and Posteo
Google maps -> Here maps and Comaps
Onenote -> Notesnook
After reading other comments and thinking for a bit, I realized that I have made more switches.
Google Translate -> Deepl
Google -> DuckDuckGo -> Qwant
Youtube -> Invidious
And I have never used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit much.
That’s pretty good, I would consider deleting accounts you leave behind though if that works for you. As it sends a signal to those mega corps, as their numbers drop it’ll create pressure. Even if one account is just the tiniest drop in an ocean, together we can make a dent large enough.
Deleting accounts I don’t use will be the next step. So far I prefer to have Google and Microsoft accounts and not use them compared with deleting them.
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Today I’m moving old store accounts that I haven’t used in ages. (This in a bigger move towards deleting a my main ms account).
iCloud Keychain (Passwords)
Done:
Windows -> Ubuntu (but that was long time ago)
Google Translate -> Deepl
Google Maps -> Mapy.com
Reddit -> Lemmy (thinking about somehow to switch to Piefed)
Stocard / Klarna -> Catima
Google photos -> Synology photos
In progress:
Gmail -> Mailbox.org
Tried but failed:
Facebook -> Friendica (not enough people, many important communities on Facebook)
Messenger -> Signal / Matrix / whatever (not enough people)
Android -> whatever (no sensible alternative)
“Android -> whatever (no sensible alternative)”
Are you familiar with Jolla / Sailfish OS? Im not either, but still my next phone will be one of theirs as soon as this one breaks :D
I heard about them and I’d like to give it a try. But from what I heard, I’m afraid I couldn’t use it as my “daily driver”. Banking apps very probably won’t work, nor my country government apps. Also Facebook + Messenger are unfortunately very important where I live. MS Teams + Outlook would also be nice to have for my job.
But the truth is, I’ve never tried Jolla (nor I know anyone who owns one) so I’m not sure how accurate my view is. Maybe those things are possible to run now, I really don’t know
i think all those things work but banking apps do require some finagling and you should buy a well-supported phone for a good experience
disclaimer: i haven’t tried banking apps but have just read others’ experience with them
Some of these have been for privacy and FLOSS ideology over the past 5 years, but anyway…
Fully deleted:
Windows -> Linux (mostly; have a Windows VM I don’t use and needed hubby’s Windows installation for the MSM download tool for some old phones a while back).
Instagram -> nothing
WhatsApp -> Signal, Matrix/Element, SMS (friends understood, lost some community groups and annoyed others)
LineageOS w/GAPPS -> LineageOS for MicroG -> DivestOS (RIP) -> GrapheneOS (-> trying to move to UBPorts Ubuntu Touch)
Twilio Authy -> Aegis
BitWarden -> KeePass (this one was purely because disentangling from US services and it still hurts, ❤BitWarden)
Google Maps -> Organic Maps + browser Google Maps without location
Still have but use very little:
Facebook -> nothing (marketplace and some niche old-person hobby advice)
Gmail -> Proton -> Tutanota (lingering registrations, occasionally collaboration through Google Drive)
Google Drive -> Hetzner-hosted Nextcloud (for calendar, contacts, backups, etc)
Reddit -> Lemmy -> Piefed (kept for some hobby groups I might need to ask sometime)
Youtube -> Arte, local public TV streaming (YLE Areena) (for what I first check for passive entertainment)
Is piefed different? I tought it was another domain is all.
It’s very similar, part of the “threadiverse”, Fediverse services intended for Reddit-like UIs, like Lemmy and kbin/Mbin. Both use ActivityPub so you can read&post either on either.
They both have their pros and cons. Piefed has better moderation tools, multi-communities, and combines crossposts, among some other things; downsides, it’s written in Python which is… weird, though early metrics suggest it uses less resources. Lemmy is more established, has better app support, and is written in Rust, which, prestigious. But honestly, a lot of it comes down to community and politics.
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Instagram and Linkedin was the latest last autumn I guess. Would have deleted them sooner had I actually used them, but I don’t think I had signed in to either for years. Spotify before that (though Swedish), replaced with Qobuz.
The current battle is to get my partner to cancel her American streaming subscriptions. Don’t want to be too extremist about it, but yet…
