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I am continuing my journey AWAY from Meta and Google.

This post describes all the alternatives I have chosen, along with links to longer articles I've written about why people are leaving Google and Meta, including with longer lists of alternatives.

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My Journey Away from Meta and Google

I am continuing my journey AWAY from Meta and Google. My Facebook account is deleted and I have no other Meta apps that I use. I'm using Bluesky and Mastodon now. I've been using Gmail since 2004, the year it came out.
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I am on a similar journey. I'm really diving into Friendica as my Facebook replacement right now. I hopped onto PeerTube for my small video hosting needs, but will definitely take a look at Dailymotion as well.
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Scott Pfitzinger
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@etnmarchand That's interesting. I hadn't heard of Friendica. I'll check it out. What are your thoughts so far?
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It is small, but federated (ActivityPub). Some of the instances have plugins for integrating BlueSky as well (friendica.world and my-place.social both do). The interface is built as more of a Facebook replacement complete with groups and a calendar). Oh, and you can add rss feeds right into your newsfeed (I now subscribe to your blog in my feed!).

Down side so far... it is a little slow. But that might be my instance/server being overseas.