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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* 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...

I'm months behind, but somehow this is the first I've heard of Pixelfed.

Though now I'm uncertain what the use case is, at least if I can't depend on finding 20 of my closest friends to begin using it.

Though, on this note, I have been wanting to look into Immich, in an attempt to reduce my reliance on Google Photos.

I don't know that I want to purge my photos from Google Photos, as it provides me with a low-quality backup that's wildly different from my other backups. But any point where I can be more in control of my content, the better.

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Hello Adept!

** On Friday 19.09.25 - 08:06, Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

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

I'm months behind, but somehow this is the first I've heard of Pixelfed.

Me too. First time here.

Though now I'm uncertain what the use case is, at least if I can't depend on finding 20 of my closest friends to begin using it.

Me too. Not sure I need a dedicated federated system just for
sharing photos. But I suppose the air-gap from traditional
public access to attachments in email and the avoidance of
scrutiny and skimming in the googlephotos system is an
advantage.

Though, on this note, I have been wanting to look into Immich, in an attempt to reduce my reliance on Google Photos.

I don't know that I want to purge my photos from Google Photos, as it provides me with a low-quality backup that's wildly different from my
other backups. But any point where I can be more in control of my content, the better.

Immich is still too new. Hang on to Google Photos.

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Me too. Not sure I need a dedicated federated system just for
sharing photos. But I suppose the air-gap from traditional
public access to attachments in email and the avoidance of
scrutiny and skimming in the googlephotos system is an
advantage.

Yeah, I think the control aspects are probably the main aspects.

But I struggle with the idea that, if I want to share photos or vacation thoughts, or whatever, do I wind up giving people another login, and thus they don't bother ever clicking through?

Or perhaps it doesn't matter, as perhaps it's more for the people I'd actually write direct messages to and chat with for a while.

But, realistically, I don't know that I ever want to put that much effort into it.

Though I'm now at a weird point, because I used to use Facebook, but since they made it a requirement to either pay them or accept the various tracking things (in Europe, anyway), I've just gone with not logging into Facebook.

Though, on this note, I have been wanting to look into Immich, in an attempt to reduce my reliance on Google Photos.

Immich is still too new. Hang on to Google Photos.

Yeah, I'd probably hang on to Google Photos anyway, as that off-site, off-my-servers backup is compelling, as is the ability to search for photos and see the albums I've created over time.

I'm sure Immich has a variety of positive features, but the main one for me is control, as it'd be on my own servers, and if suddenly Google Photos went away, or Google does something awful that means it's time to move all data off their servers, etc., I'd hopefully have something that does most of what Google Photos does.

But, like everything else, it takes time and effort to get things to a usable level. And, e.g., as much as I like Jellyfin, it took a lot more effort to make that usable than to just watch whatever on Netflix or YouTube.

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