I am currently working on migrating away from:
- #Google (everything, except keeping the gmail address for a while)
- #Meta services
- #Amazon
- #Tesla
Much heavy lifting, e.g. Google Photos. I a found company that let me host a bunch of #opensource stuff, e.g. #Immich for pictures
Important to select European hosting providers.
https://elest.io
@dagb the photos part is daunting and as someone who is not hands on with tech I am not confident I'll be able to make it (on the contrary, I am almost certain I will manage to wipe 3 years of memories by accident in the process)
@fanta_gear Moving from Google photos to immich is a manual process. Just download everything from google photos (preferable album by album) and import it into Immich.
Google has a service called takeout, but in only works with other american photo services.
@dagb @fanta_gear there are multiple tools that can extract photos from a Google Takeout archive and upload them into Immich