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It ain't easy but keep going! (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 months ago by slowmorella@lemm.ee to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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Hi! I just wanted to share my progress and struggles hoping to lighten some moods.

So, i started with switching Form Dropbox to Tresorit, which was actually very easy to do and i am very happy with the change.

Next i cancelled my LinkedIn subscription. That was a bit harder because it took me quite some bravery to send out all those invites and i also lost connection to some former colleagues i really liked. But LinkedIn is bullshit and it became worst lately. Now i don't miss it at all.

At the same time i tried to convince the people arround me to switch from whatsapp to either element or session. Most oft them ignored me and i am kind of scared that noone will ever contact me again and that i will be very lonly in the future. I guess that is part of this journey. I eventually deleted my whatsapp account but not without fear.

Also very hard was cancelling spotify because of all my nice playlists. It had to be done because i used facebook to log-in. I cancelled that as well by now. That was not hard because it is unusable for some years now. I still have to get used to Qobuz but so far i like it.

I also got me one of those degoogled Fairphones which i am using now to write this post. So i will soon be able to close my Google account. Finally! One Problem about that is that it only has one physical slot for sim-cards and my other sim-card hat to become an e-sim. So i also had to switch mobile contract providers because my old one doesn't offer e-sims. That was a hassle and i still hope it will work out fine because i have had this phonenumber since probably 10+ something years and have an emotional connection to it (as it turned out).

Anyway. It is quite some effort but it helps to look back on what is already done. And in case you are also scared that noone will follow you. You are not alone :)

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[โ€“] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I also got me one of those degoogled Fairphones

That's cool. I had no idea fairphones could be degoogled. What OS is it using? Lineage/Graphene or something else entirely?

[โ€“] slowmorella@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

It runs on /e/OS. That is an open source degoogled Version of Android.

[โ€“] snuggledick@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

According to their website it comes with /e/OS, a degoogled Android.

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This was inspiring to read! Thanks for sharing :)

A small note incase you are unaware: you posted this post with language set as "Deutsch", so only people who have selected German in their language settings on their profiles will see this post.

This is a bit of a difficult topic still with lemmy, I suggest checking out !languagesettings@lemmy.zip in case you struggle with these settings. (If this was intentional it's completely ok and sorry for my comment)

Edit: not sure if my comment set to "Deutsch" works, doesn't seem to change anything.. Hope you see this message.

[โ€“] slowmorella@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh thanks for the feedback and the hint. I will check out the settings. Thanks so much

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Super! Kein Problem :)

[โ€“] sp3ctre@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

Very good progress so far!

I will have a look at Qobuz too, when I need music next time.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In regards to your nice playlists on spotify, have a look at https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader :)

[โ€“] slowmorella@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I will. Thanks :)

[โ€“] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://soundiiz.com/ (from France) is great for backing up and migrating playlists. There is a free tier, but the pay tier is pretty cheap.

[โ€“] slowmorella@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks i will check it out. Although i think i should have done that before deleting my account :(

[โ€“] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, might be too late for you, but if you inspired to there to follow, it would make their journey easier.

[โ€“] EuropeanMade@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Very well done and remember every step is worth it! It doesn't need to be perfect, but together we can do it!

[โ€“] 79luca79@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

im still on gmail, but i already changed some accounts to protonmail.

also this damn tiktok. its good for watching these short, epic euro-compilations and the funny stuff the donald says. xD (yes, i know there are quite a few videos out of context)

[โ€“] slowmorella@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I understand that. I am still baffled how i managed to avoid long-term short-format addiction so far. Well i still doom-scroll reddit. But soon i will permanently switch to lemmy :)

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also very hard was cancelling spotify because of all my nice playlists

There's a feature in Qobuz to import your playlist for free!

I deleted my spotify account completely before getting around to using it, so personally I messed up... But it should be possible!

[โ€“] slowmorella@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Sadly my spotify account is long gone. But a friend of mine managed to export an excel file with my favorite playlist. I once shared it with him. So now i can rebuild it manually. Also it is nice to start over i guess :)