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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Google by throwaway67743 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:54PM (#30860651)
Self hosted email for 20 years so ignoring that:

- nextcloud for photos/drive - bitwarden with vaultwarden backend for passwords - self hosted Firefox Sync for everything else - syncthing for outlying file sharing - jottacloud for high capacity storage dump (rclone is your friend)

Probably forgot something

Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Google by 4kelly on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:10PM (#30860818)
These are all great tools. But I wanted to gingerly hop on this thread to say that de google doesn’t have to mean self hosted.

I found it very rewarding to put my money towards companies that are aligned with my priorities (be it privacy or other) even if there were free alternatives.

Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Google by kingcharles on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:57PM (#30861888)
Agreed. Fastmail is a great example. They are cheap, but their product is excellent and so is their support. I never have to worry about losing my account unless I stop paying. I got burned on that when I went to jail, but they offer a pre-pay option so you can now pay a decade worth of fees in advance :)
Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Google by throwaway67743 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @04:56AM (#30865177)
Yeah, I do use the odd service, email is just because I've always done that and I still like the flexibility
Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Google by jrib on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:13PM (#30862020)
what are you using for self-host firefox sync?
Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Google by throwaway67743 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @04:59AM (#30865192)
The awful python 2 sync server still works for the most part, with storage bits and auth - it is a chore to setup and it sucks a little but eh, nobody else has bothered to make sync useful enough like the alternatives that do support custom sync need command line args which is not ideal and also rules out mobile devices entirely whereas Firefox on android has the ability to configure custom sync server for example