Some ideas 💡 (not mine)

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.

I got my own domain. It's still a ton of work because you have to switch everything, but once you've done this you will be independent: if you dislike your current provider you can make a copy, switch providers and every account keeps working.

Now my old Gmail accounts redirect everything to my new email and this way I can switch whatever I forgot.

Yeah, I had to check the decision making process there, it's just that it's not American.

Might as well go to Deezer.

To be fair, the people here in Lemmy already know about half of these and are willing to changethe rest. Using reddit to spread the word actually reaches the target audience of this post.

same

Yeah spotify is fucking vile. I hear my peers praise it for its alleged ability to perfect tailor playlists and recommendations for music discovery- because I guess we can't be bothered to figure out what music we like anymore. And them of course, it behinds spoonfeeding its users their own ai-generated slop that they don't have to pay licensing fees for.

Genuinely not my post. I just shared it from my saved images on my phone. I really don't like the idea of being exploited by tech companies with no regard for their users.

Blue sky has an algorithm, people really want their algorithms. They don't want to have to go and search out all of the content, they want to be spoon-fed. When Twitter exploded and Mastodon had their API gate, a lot of journalists and celebrities tested out the water on Mastodon but over time they slowly bled over and end up in Bluesky.

I'm not saying that Mastodon can't survive without an algorithm but they don't make any attempt to deliver content to a person that they find relevant. It's all organic discovery and that's very 00's ish.

dissatisfied with this formerly-popular social media platform that experienced a hostile fascist takeover and enshittification? Join us on this currently-popular social media platform that will undergo the same event in seven years! Because how are we supposed to make profits by learning from our mistakes?

But, all the liberals are there now, so it must be great! /s

Yeah, I excitedly checked out the environmental, non-google, private search engine I'd never heard of, only to discover that Ecosia "only" shares all your data with Google and Microsoft Bing, as it uses their search engines and ad services. They do plant trees, but, their website doesn't even pretend to be interested in privacy or avoiding Google.

No idea what that walnut is smoking.

@LavaPlanet @LEONARDE11 I switched a few times. With Tutanota. It's good and does what I need. I like it so much have gone from the free plan to the paid plan. My advice is if you're not sure, just switch.

Yes we do.

We even have laws that say we can't say we received a request on an individual level not a company level which means we aren't suppose to tell our lawyers.

Once proton integrates an office suite I'll be all set. (It's in the road map. When? Who knows?)

I'm considering kdrive based on prices.

There's errors on the new one too but the one you're looking at is slightly old

https://bsky.app/profile/purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social/post/3ll2ak7nr722x

Matrix is alright with clients like Element (X) and Cinny. But for me it's rather a (still somewhat lacking) Discord replacement. Maybe at some point with better clients this improves. The protocol already allows for a lot of stuff but most clients don't implement most functionality (yet).

As I understand, an adtech company bought a majority stake in StartPage in 2019, and though they apparently can't use that stake to force privacy-threatening changes, I personally find that acquisition disconcerting. Probably not enough to say it's unsafe to use, but enough that I prefer some of the other options out there.

ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. You can switch to another corporation, but their CEO will also be a bourgeois bastard. Tim Apple attended Trump’s inauguration.

Not a good reason to leave Proton.