cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/37106126

Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.

What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don’t you like, would you recommend them?

  • tfmOPMA
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    14 hours ago

    Wow that’s an awesome transition. In what time period did you do this?

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      12 hours ago

      Oh it’s still very much a work in progress. I’ve been on GrapheneOS for a little over a month now. The VPS I’ve had for a few weeks. There’s still a tonne to do to properly degoogle, but the plan is coming together.

      The app I’m missing most at the mo, is GBoard. I’m using FUTO keyboard as a replacement, but its swipe to type is nowhere near as good as GBoard. I have to be a lot more precise with where my thumb swipes, and I end up correcting or manually typing around 10% of words. You could be quite imprecise on GBoard and it would figure out what you wanted, FUTO takes more effort.

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          12 hours ago

          Yeah I looked at Fossify keyboard, but it doesn’t have swipe typing, which I find quicker on my phone.

          I’ll eventually be putting together a personal blog of my mini cloud server setup, when I have something written, I’ll post it here.

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            12 hours ago

            it doesn’t have swipe typing, which I find quicker on my phone.

            Oh, didn’t know that. That’s unfortunate.

            putting together a personal blog of my mini cloud server setup

            Sounds cool! What have you planned?