• JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The only Google thing holding me back from full degoogling is YouTube, but with how garbage the platform is becoming, especially with the algorithm just going berserk and it probably not being long until I start being affected by the adblock-block, I think moving away from it is only going to be easier than ever before.

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      10 months ago

      serious question: what do for email if you’ve been a gmail user for … (checks notes) … almost 20 years? self hosted?

      honest question. I’m interested, but really have no idea what my options are when I’ve had the same email address for half my life / all of my adult life.

      • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Proton Mail as others have suggested is the easy and privacy friendly solution, and probably set an auto forwarding rule from your gmail account to your new Proton Mail.

        Otherwise I haven’t self hosted my own email but from my previous attempts it seemed like it’s quite involved

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          10 months ago

          Protonmail does have a problem with often being classified as a temporary email provider. Some websites refuse to allow registrations using protonmail emails. Solution is to not use those websites.

      • DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        Fastmail with a custom domain. It’s great, and has a nice migration tool for moving everything over from Gmail. Also integrates nicely with 1Password for personalized email addresses for each service I sign up for, which I can nuke as needed if needed.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        Not married to my email and I bought my own domain.
        The only hard part is switching all accounts to the new domain (and finding out that some IT/dev departments decided that changing emails doesnt happen at all).

        I pay a company a bit too much money so I don’t have to worry about self hosting.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Self hosting email is pretty much impossible nowadays. You have to use your hosting service servers at a minimum. But a dedicated email service will probably have better spam handling (although that’s possibly not as bad as it once was).