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?

  • Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone
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    8 hours ago

    I am absolutely dumb with this stuff so I have one question: how do I get all of my photos off Google cloud? That’s the only thing stopping me from shitting it down.

    I also have a google pixel phone but that will be destroyed once my contract is up and I can afford something not google related

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      I know there are more options out there but what I have is a synology nas.

      I self host the nas at home and I can still access the photos and stuff everywhere I go.

      I chose synology because even though its proprietary and a little overpriced, at the time, I was short on time to learn the inner workings of free operating systems and setting up all the certificates, ddns, ports, etc.

      Ofc there are also other cloud providers as well, but I use the synology for jellyfin so I killed 2 birds with one stone.

    • Rusty@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      Don’t destroy your phone, you can install grapheneos(a privacy focused android distro) and it’s working great on pixels.