I want to degoogle myself.

* reduce usage of my gmail inbox
* purge my photos from google photos
etc.


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Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

I want to degoogle myself.

* reduce usage of my gmail inbox
* purge my photos from google photos
etc.

Time for a homelab - set up any mail-in-a-box solution and Pixelfed for
image sharing...



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I want to degoogle myself.

* reduce usage of my gmail inbox
* purge my photos from google photos
etc.

I never used Google Photos, Drive is for spam only, not over used and not critical. gmail is for spam. I don't use google search engine, at least directly.

But I still use Android tablet as ebook reader and I need to use Google at work for marketing, that's my anchor, still heavy.

but yeah.. all what you've done is what I did like 8-10 years ago.

I'm almost de Facebooked! That's trickier.

-h1

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Quoting Hollowone to Poindexter Fortran <=-

I want to degoogle myself.

* reduce usage of my gmail inbox
* purge my photos from google photos
etc.

I never used Google Photos, Drive is for spam only, not over
used and not critical. gmail is for spam. I don't use google
search engine, at least directly.
But I still use Android tablet as ebook reader and I need to use
Google at work for marketing, that's my anchor, still heavy.
but yeah.. all what you've done is what I did like 8-10 years ago.

I'm almost de Facebooked! That's trickier.

I "de facebooked: about 6 years ago. For me it wasn't a problem.
I just deleted my account. Tired of people I never knew from HS
trying to 'connect'. Or chatting with me in the middle of doing
something and then not responding when I replied. And the endless
stupid games that try to 'hook' you to play every waking hour.
Just told my family I was done with it, they'd have to contact me
a different way.

Just my opinion of FB though. You're mileage may vary.



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Re: Re: Goals
By: Cougar428 to HOLLOWONE on Thu Aug 07 2025 06:24 am

I "de facebooked: about 6 years ago. For me it wasn't a problem. I just deleted my account. Tired of people I never knew from HS trying to 'connect'. Or chatting with me in the middle of doing something and then not responding when I replied.

Odd, I've never experienced those things on Facebook.

And the endless stupid games that try to
'hook' you to play every waking hour. Just told my family I was done with it, they'd have to contact me a different way.

I just don't play those games. I use Facebook to keep in touch with family & friends, and there are some groups I'm in there (such as fan groups for various TV shows, etc.). It's basically a form of entertainment.

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Just my opinion of FB though. You're mileage may vary.

Yeah.. I have these few people I care of and it's only FB we have some sort of contact through. But maybe that's illusionary.

Never the less in last 5 years from 1000 "friends" there or so I'm under 90 and that's finally sort of usable. But only with FBPurity that removes all the clutter from the browser in the first place.

-h1

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Re: Re: Goals
By: hollowone to Cougar428 on Fri Aug 08 2025 10:44 am

Yeah.. I have these few people I care of and it's only FB we have some sort of contact through. But maybe that's illusionary.

Never the less in last 5 years from 1000 "friends" there or so I'm under 90 and that's finally sort of usable. But only with FBPurity that removes all the clutter from the browser in the first place.

I couldn't imagine having 1000 contacts on Facebook.. Currently I have 224, and they're all people I know personally. I've never added people on Facebook who I didn't know personally; I'm not sure why I would.

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I couldn't imagine having 1000 contacts on Facebook.. Currently I have 224, and they're all people I know personally. I've never added people
on Facebook who I didn't know personally; I'm not sure why I would.

Originally when FB started I was tech evangelist at MSFT. Lots of people after events were adding me to FB and Twitter when I was using it then. I had a lot of people from work I worked with as well. + like you said 200-300 more or less local people I know or knew in the past.

I started optimizing that about 5-6 years ago and I ended up with 90 only.

-h1

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