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my degoogle and foss journey (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I started in March this year, and so far these have been my changes:

  • Google Drive -> Filen.io
  • Google Photos -> EntePhotos
  • Google Gmail -> Proton (not 100% yet)
  • Google Translator -> Offline Translator and Mozhi
  • Google Maps -> CoMaps/OpenStreetMap
  • Google PlayStore -> AuroraStore / F-Droid
  • Google Search -> DuckDuckGo
  • Youtube -> Before PipePipe but now Morphe Youtube

And anothers changes outside of google:

  • ChatGpt -> Duck.ai
  • Spotify -> ArchiveTune
  • Chess.com -> LiChess
  • Netflix -> Jellyfin
  • GitHub -> Codeberg
  • Reddit -> Morphe Reddit and Lemmy
  • Twitter -> Mastodon and Bsky
  • I also stopped using Instagram and TikTok

its difficult to start, but the satisfaction afterwards is very good

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

No. I went from Android to GrapheneOS. Have clients on iPhone. I'm now using stock messages on grapheneOS instead of Google message. IPhone seems to have default settings with SMS protocols off

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    That is weird. I recall users having trouble after switching from iPhone to Android a couple years back - root cause was their number still being associated with iMessage, so texts from an iPhone went nowhere.

    It’s possible to disable RCS and MMS. I don’t even see the option of SMS being disabled.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yeah, that happened too. I had to go kill the google text app on ye olde phone.

    The only fix I found for iPhone user texting compatibility with grapheneOS stock msg is to social-engineer your iPhone user into checking & changing their settings; enable SMS and/or disabling iMessage format

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