BrightFadedDog

I did that when I moved to Lemmy last year. The more recent account I just deleted was mostly comments “inciting violence” and encouraging people to move to Lemmy, so they are welcome to keep those.

I’m working on getting rid of Google, but it is linked into so many things it’s going to take a lot of time to do it completely.

I’ve moved away from Chrome as a browser and Google as a search engine. I’m starting to disconnect other accounts I’ve logged into using Google as well.

I’m setting up new email accounts - I’m using my own domain name so I can move in future instead of feeling so tied to one provider.

At some point I need to look at Google drive/photos - I think there are a couple of things that synchronize through there still. The find my phone service is tied into Google. All my apps are downloaded from the Play store, and there are a few things tied into Google Wallet.

I can get rid of the main bits, but I think it’s going to take years to get rid of it all.

Someone else posted that they wanted to fire Bezos off in a rocket never to return. I replied that it would be more appropriate to float him down the Amazon. My comment (and only mine) was banned for “inciting violence”.

Lemmy is trying to help stop me procrastinating and refusing to let me log in to my Aussie.zone account on the computer. I’m going to show it that my procrastination cannot be stopped so easily and clean out the cat litter tray. The things we do when we should be studying. 🤣