@kevinrenskers It's not entirely easy, and it kind of depends the route you want to take.

I recently did the same "journey", but away from Google stuff.

And I went the "self-hosting" route for most things.

But my experience is that it was actually easier than I expected, and also... empowering.

Now I'm running most things on my own NAS which soon will be joined by a dedicated home/network server for running some other services.

For me Photo management was one of the trickier ones... but then I discovered #Immich that has helped A LOT to replace Google Photos.

But I don't self-host everything... some services are good enough like Raindrop for bookmarking and Deezer for music, because fuck Spotify.

☝️ Please welcome @pixelunion on Mastodon!

The Google Photos alternative PixelUnion, a hosted Immich solution based in Europe, made good on another of their promises to address the issues I pointed out in my feedback. They added an RSS feed to their blog and now joined Mastodon. They're also planning a guide for migrating from Google Photos as I also suggested.

Feedback to Big Tech platforms is slightly less effective.

https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/114437689871614993

#GooglePhotos #immich#EuropeanAlternatives