ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereigntyIt's the 1st Sunday of the month and so we celebrate #DigitalIndependance Day in Canada. What have you done this past month to secure your personal data? Did you exit X or flee Facebook? Did you #DeGoogle or switch to an #OpenSource software alternative?
Tell us what you accomplished and encourage others to take action. Start small and regain control over your data a little bit at a time.
In February I personally started transitioning away from my decades old GMail account. It's still a work in progress as I underestimated just how embedded Google is in my everyday online transactions. My family members still use Google apps so I'll always have some level of data security to deal with. But I'm working on it.
This past month I dumped Chrome and moved to a new private alternative - #Vivaldi and so far I'm happy with the choice.
Deborah Preuss, pcc šØš¦@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty reminds me ā¦ just disabled Chrome on my mobile.
Idren Anarchoqueer@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
iām still chomped by Google, but Iām pushing the rock up the hill every day a little bit more.
AudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism šØš¦@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty A few months ago, I have closed my Gmail account.
I am self employed and the company I work with since almost one year with is pushing is using different Google services...
Until now I am able to avoid them, but if I want to continue to work with this company I will have to create a new Gmail account in a short future. š
Mad Argon 
@adelinej @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty Don't they provide accounts in some business plan? It's expected from users to create it personally?
John H "looking for work" 
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
If you're looking for a non-chromium based alyernative browser give Zen browser a go. Built on Firefox. Really nice.
Rick d Card@mrclark @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty OK, I installed it. I'll give it a try. Thanx
@mrclark @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty I tried it but I like a menubar on top. I find it much easier to use. Oh, well.
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
just got through talking about it
Idren Anwell (@[email protected])
Attached: 3 images seeing the picture of brotherZucker next to crapstein was enough for me. I deleted my threads and Instagram account TODAY and Facebook is on the way out as soon as I detach myself from whatever few logins are left. #FuckZuck
Doctacosa@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty My current goal has been to shift away from OneDrive, that I've been using pretty heavily. It's annoying since I like OneDrive, but I'm looking to drop my Office 365 subscription so that has to go.
I've been moving my files over to @protonprivacy Drive for the past several days. It passed all my tests and looks to be reliable enough, plus the built-in privacy is a nice cherry on top. I should be done with this in a few days!
#CDNdid
I've been moving my files over to @protonprivacy Drive for the past several days. It passed all my tests and looks to be reliable enough, plus the built-in privacy is a nice cherry on top. I should be done with this in a few days!
#CDNdid
GunChleoc@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty I've already been on Linux for years but I did find something I could improve: I have moved my Virtual Machines from Oracle VirtualBox to QEMU.
That was a few days of figuring things out and shoveling backups, but it's done now. The Linux VMs are faster, but the Graphics in the Windows VM are a bit laggy with heavy duty applications. Still need to fiddle with that bit eventually.
Action Jay š¾ 
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty I have installing GrapheneOS on my to-do list, but it's so scary š¬
ElwoodCity@ElwoodCity @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty rocking a Galaxy A71. Should be fully supported, just nervous about making sure everything's backed up first
@action_jay @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
Understandable! That's a big #DIDay step
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty I've been de-googled for a long time now so, I'll just cheer you all on!š š š„³ š
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty I officially ditched all Meta services as of today. Live honked it all on my Gander timeline.
Shawn Hooper (he/him) šØš¦@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty Moved all my podcasts onto a home server w/ VPN, and cancelled my Spotify account.
Ditched Feedly for FreshRSS, also self-hosted.