This is going to be a series on how I plan on de googling my life. It’s not going to be easy but it’s becoming more and more necessary to get away from Google for my online services.
I have the following components that I need to migrate and I’ll document my progress on getting away from google for each of those.
Gmail#
I’m looking at moving to either Fastmail or Protonmail. This should be pretty easy so, the only thing holding me back is my own insecurities on screwing something up.
I moved to Fastmail.
Photos#
Immich is my app of choice, I’m already self hosting this and have my photos backed up but there is a breaking issue that’s stopped me putting all my trust in it. There are issue with duplicate images where the mobile app will constantly re-upload deleted images. This is apparently fixed in the latest version but my setup isn’t working since the update.
Files#
I’m going to run Nextcloud, I was quite happy with it on another server my only issue was it used snap so I’ll set it up in docker on my new server.
Online Document Editing#
I use Docs and Sheets quite a bit, I’m not really sure what the solution is here.
Maps#
This will be the hardest to replace, the amount of information that it has is amazing and really useful, I used it to plan all our holidays.