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I feel like #degoogle seems to embody a greater movement to leave bigtech. Here are the crazy things I've done over the last month or so.

  • Installed Arch on my laptop about a month ago
  • re-engaged my Mastodon and Bluesky while deleting Twitter and unfriending everyone on Facebook
  • Installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel
  • Moved email to custom domain and Tuta from Gmail
  • Moved to NextCloud in place of Google Drive
  • Moved photos from Google Photos to Ente Photos
  • Moved my PKM and Notes to Logseq
  • Moved from Chome and Google Search to Firefox, Tor and DuckDuckGo
  • Just deleted Reddit and started a Lemmy account.

It's been a ride and I'm open to other suggestions and guides.

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[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

what did you use for your 2fa codes? Most of mine are in google authenticator and I would likely need to migrate them first.

[–] ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

I moved my extensive 2FA to Bitwarden Authenticator - I think I had to scan the migration QR codes from Google authenticator and recover the keys manually but it worked fine

[–] smashing3606@feddit.online 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Aegis is another option. I use vaultwarden for most OTP.

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

+1 on Aegis, love it, it's FOSS and on F-droid. Can make auto backups/exports (encrypted/not), can register codes from a screenshot of a QR code (love that feature when I'm on my phone), it's a simple and clean design overall.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Most MFA codes I can store in freeotp+. Import/export function means I can back it up, too.

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I keep mine in 2FAS and Vaultwarden.

[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

Same Here: 2FAS. If you are into coding, you can also write your own: there are lots of libraries to do the cryptography for you.

[–] pahulf@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

I have found something yet, but I've heard ENTE Authenticator is pretty good.