#degoogle

Fire Spritzhydrowalrus
2026-01-21

Terrible direction from - this looks like an awful solution for the community:

"To accommodate educational and noncommercial development, Google will introduce a new limited developer account type aimed at students and hobbyists. These accounts will not undergo full identity verification but will instead allow app installations on a restricted number of registered devices."

techspot.com/news/110243-andro

2026-01-21

How old were you, when you found out #virustotal was an #Alphabet / #google product? I might be extremely late to this but I just found out and I’m terribly disappointed. #degoogle #askfedi

zeitkapsl.euzeitkapsl
2026-01-21

zeitkapsl is all about choice. ✨
Leave Google. Avoid vendor lock-in. Pick your OS. 💻

With v1.3.6) the Desktop app will be natively packaged for:

Debian 13
Ubuntu 22.04 + 24.04
Fedora
Arch Linux
Windows
macOS: x86 & ARM64

If your distro isn’t listed, there’s a Flatpak image 📦

We don’t just throw together an Electron/AppImage and hope it works.

Every package is integrated into our test suite ✅ to ensure it runs smoothly.

zeitkapsl now releases for all major linux distributions natively.
2026-01-21
2026-01-21

When long-time community member @cybette said the Jolla C2 felt a bit too big for her hands, we didn’t just take notes. We invited her over. She stopped by the office to try the new Jolla Phone appearance models in person.

Her verdict:
“8.5/10 for size, materials, and hand-feel. After handling the sample model for the better part of an hour, I’m apprehensive no more. It fits well in my small-ish hands.” She also notes it may go up to a 9/10 once the final weight and balance are locked in.

Read the full, unfiltered forum post here:
forum.sailfishos.org/t/my-firs

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered

2026-01-21

There are a lot of good posts about de-googling your email, but they all seemed to be focussed on single user accounts.

Does anyone have a good guide for de-googling my *family* email?

We need to migrate existing inboxes/archives, sort out hosting, re-point DNS (MX records, etc.), and we need Android and iOS apps.

And it needs to be relatively trauma-free.

UK/EU solutions only, plz.

#degoogle

2026-01-21

I've been looking into degoogling a bit. It's not going well. I'm experimenting with Nextcloud, currently with the specific small goal of switching from Google Keep to Nextcloud Notes. The Android App for this is so bad. I want to like this but it's so hard.

#degoogle #nextcloud

Simone 🇪🇺svm@mastodon.nl
2026-01-21

Hi! I'm #newhere. Hopefully this can be a nice alternative to all the American socials. I'm trying to switch to European alternatives as much as possible. Joined #mastodon, #pixelfed and #lemmy, and changed my cloud and email. Any other platforms or services I should know about? #degoogle #goeuropean

Leander Lindahlleanderlindahl
2026-01-21

RE: zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115929073

Sobering.

(I don't watch YouTube because I'm a bit of a Taliban since they started supporting the deconstruction of democracy and donate $$$ to that end. But there's a transcript version to read.)

luddite 🇵🇸 computerludd@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-21

I want to put a map on a website to list a bunch of local groups by annotating a map, but I don't want to use Google Maps.

Does anyone have any ideas?

This screenshot is from Food Not Bombs, but they're using Google Maps
#smallweb #degoogle

Map of western Europe with many coloured pins scattered across it.
2026-01-20

@MikeImBack Great move by DuckDuckGo to launch an AI-free version of its search engine: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

#search #Google #deGoogle

2026-01-20

@cybette

Thank you for taking the time to make this post. Give a lot of more clarity to it's appearance than their short video.

2026-01-20

#degoogle advanced today slightly again. I was once happy to use the (Google) datacenter physically located in #Finland, but now I have moved away to an European provider.

All content was encrypted though so it doesn't matter that much where I keep them.

Jenny :al_t_goodgirl:TheJnx@bonito.cafe
2026-01-20

Haciendo mudanza de Proton a #Disroot :al_a_waveuwu:

Pues desde ayer estoy retomando de nuevo usar Disroot, ya que tengo emails en todos lados y como Proton ni Tuta no me convencen, con mas razón

De momento este es mi setup:

Material Files

Aprovechando la función WebDav de este se pueden mover los archivos que hay en la nube de Nextcloud y viceversa con los del almacenamiento interno mas fácilmente

Para quienes no sepan configurarlo, va de la siguiente manera:

Host: cloud.disroot.org
Puerto: 443
Ruta: /remote.php/webdav/
Protocolo: HTTPS
Usuario: [usuario]
Contraseña: [contraseña]

Thunderbird

Para esta parte estaba pensando si usar Thunderbird o K-9 Mail, al final me decidí por el icono mas... Entendible, quizas les pase lo mismo xD

Por si no saben configurarlo, Disroot tiene una guia un poco desactualizada pero aun funcional

Keyguard + Simplelogin

Debo admitir que la función de Proton de crear correos alternos, la posibilidad de activarlos y desactivarlos mediante el Proton Pass llega a ser muy cómodo, se puede replicar algo así con Simplelogin y aprovechando que ahora Disroot tiene un Vaultwarden es mas fácil la creación de estos correos mediante la app Keyguard y su integración con diferentes de estos proveedores, incluyendo el antes mencionado

#DeGoogle #Privacy

2026-01-20
Leander Lindahlleanderlindahl
2026-01-20

@leffe @jon_bon det är ännu värre för våra danska bröder och systrar med som har funkat på :ed Android (ex eOS), Men har slutat fungera relativt nyligen om jag förstod det rätt när jag läste en kommentar av @anderspuck . Men i DK borde det ju åtgärdas ganska snabbt får man hoppas, Danmark verkar ha hög medvetenhet i de här frågorna. (Har blivit tvungna att ha det)

Leander Lindahlleanderlindahl
2026-01-20

@marcorudy oh, for YouTube I don't know. I'm probably the only person on the planet who doesn't use YT unless I have to at work. I was premium sub and used it a lot before Google started showing up smiling at the inauguration and donating $$$ to support dismantling democracy.

But aren't there a bunch of apps that allows you to watch w/o ads? Like and is the other one called freetube?

And if you previously used and are FF forks.

Patrick Leavypatrickleavy
2026-01-19

If you thought you're stuck with the creepy data harvesting of Google's Android and Apple's iOS, you're wrong!

Check out the range of (very good) alternative OS options:
rebeltechalliance.org/mobileos

Why not rescue an old phone by flashing one of those OS to it? It would be the perfect first phone for your child, or extend the life of a phone for you!

How it feels to deGoogle (and then ironically share something from YouTube)

#degoogle #privacy #theonion

youtube.com/shorts/qnBWMcKKkKE

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