Goals for 2026:
☐ DeGoogle
☐ DeMeta
☐ DeMicrosoft
Can you tick any off the list? 😎
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@Tutanota We use MS at work so that one will take some time, even though I pester IT for Linux at every opportunity 😂 as for the other two, I haven't deleted my accounts but they are, at this point, entirely dormant & will most likely be dying for good this year & all Google products have been replaced 👍
Degoogle: almost, next phone will be Fairphone with /e/os
Demeta: quitted whatsapp years ago, check
Demicrosoft: on Linux now, only have to leave their authenticator. Left hotmail and use Tuta for many years.
Already done ✅
@Tutanota All Gone, including Apple, which I used to really respect.
Done. Done. And done.
The only tie I still have to Google is the integrated map on my Hyundai Kona infotainment system, and I can't disable it or install an alternative.
Anyone know how to root an infotainment system?
@IT_SME Well done! Hmh, tech in cars is a difficult one..
@Tutanota Only DeBezos left for me.
And this is a tough one.
@Tutanota Linux: De-M$ for 20+ years. Couldn't afford to upgrade hardware with every OS update. Most of my computers/laptops are over 10 years old, and many of them were free, from friends.
Am the admin for an organization's FB page, otherwise, I don't use it.
I'm still on Android, but most of the apps I use are from F-droid. I would like to use a phone with an open source OS, but only if it can be run on an under-$250 phone, and on my current carrier.
@Tutanota probably not, but definitely reducing/limiting
@Tutanota I cant and I wont be able to
@Tutanota Does playing Minecraft count as using Microsoft? Else I would have already no Google, no Meta and no Microsoft since even years
@Tutanota Working on #1, #2 Whatsapp is unavoidable in Germany 
>:( and #3 almost complete :-)
@Tutanota I'm on my way. Only youtube and GitHub remains
@Tutanota For music production, de-microsoft ist unfortunately still rather difficult. Most commercial providers of high quality virtual instruments are still not interested in supporting formats that work in Linux.
@Tutanota just joined whatsapp last week after having left around 2018 :/
Separate phone number and only people that don't have something else
Can't fully quit Microsoft because of games with kernel level anti cheat and Minecraft. (Whyyyy did you sell to MS, Notch)
Google I am like 98% there, just kinda don't want to delete the accounts and still get some stuff from the play store.
@Tutanota All of them and then some.
@Tutanota I just use Android, but all the other services I use are already on my server 😎
I'm waiting for the @MOTOROLA x @GrapheneOS collab ❤️
@Tutanota no meta
grapheneos on my pixel 10 pro. i have a dormant gmail account that i created years ago when you could get away with no name, phone number, etc. i think about getting rid of it but can't help but think it still be useful.
cachyos as my daily driver. planning on creating a dual boot with void linux. i have a "just in case" windows 11 partition on my laptop. though all i really do with it these days is boot in to it every 3/4 months to make sure its still functional and update it
@Tutanota android is the last issue.
@Tutanota I only have an Google and MS Account, but not signed in to any of my devices directly.
MS is still needed to play Minecraft and Forza Horizon. My Google Account is for purchased apps from google play (I'm installing these with the Aurora Store). ;)
@Tutanota Oh, yes! De-big tech!
@Tutanota Already deleted Facebook and Instagram. Currently working my way into replacing Gmail with Tuta, and fully transition to @GrapheneOS
@Tutanota In my personal life the only difficult one is the first. Mainly for the creative content in YT and because transitioning to another mail address seems complicate for many reasons.
The other two were easy and done years ago. (Made easier by the fact that I always refused to join Whattsapp, and never really liked FB, X, any Microsoft products etc. I recognise my privilege!)
In my professional life I have no choice but to use MS and other big commercial products and that is infuriating.
@Tutanota Don't have to DeMeta as I've never Meta'd
@Tutanota Almost 100% free of Meta and Microsoft. The most difficult is Google, since I'm an Android user. Unfortunately, we don't yet have a 100% ready and reliable alternative solution, but I believe in the potential of open-source technologies for this someday. The path of decentralization is beautiful and promising.
@Tutanota 🎶... It's DeLovely🎶
@Tutanota De all. Wenn du diese Post von einem Apple oder Android liest, du weisst: es ist schlechter, als es aussieht.
@Tutanota de google is hard as well
No one can replace google maps when its urgent
@Tutanota De Meta is hard
problem is to convince your loved ones to move out of whatsapp - then they convince other 20
which is next to impossible
@Tutanota Every single one of them.
@Tutanota
I am already out of Meta and out of Microsoft for my personal stuff.
@Tutanota Sadly, no. Already done all of that the years before :(
@Tutanota I need a tutorial about how I can do all of this!
@Tutanota
All Meta accounts downloaded and deleted. Dual booting Linux / Windows as I transition fully to Linux. Google is the big battle just getting started. Samsung picked a bad time to force me to use Google Messages for my texting.
@Tutanota How can I tick all of them?
@Tutanota recently un-ticked the last one after going from gaming->less gaming on linux->no gaming on freebsd->a single isolated win11 enterprise iot ltsc machine for gaming
@Tutanota Got that mostly pinned down, tho still using google maps and youtube.
Also I must admit I really like c#, though I'm using mono.
@Tutanota Trying to Degoogle, but your mail app is giving me grief...
@Tutanota haven't had a Meta account in years. Microslop in even longer. Degoogled last summer. De-Protoned a couple months back as well.
@Tutanota Microsoft gone. Meta (still on instagram but FB gone). Google: working on it step by step!
@Tutanota DeMeta was easy because I was never on them. But the other two are difficult for practical reasons 😞
