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Is gmail the easiest Google service to replace or what? (bookwormstory.social)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Gmail is an email service. Like the fediverse, email is federated.

By changing your email provider, do you really lose anything? You can still contact your friends, contacts and even various customer suports. You also can recieve emails from popular social media apps. If you degoogle from atleast one Google app, maybe Gmail could be the easiest and least life changing one.

While, Youtube could easilly be one of the most difficult to degoogle from. Not like literally but emotionally. Like deep down you know you can find mostly all you might need on something like Peertube but not all the entertainment media like on Youtube. You will also become a social outcast if peertube is the only app you use. You might not understand channels people mention in day to day talk from youtube or references.

If you use exclusively fediverse apps and sites, Chrome could be almost just as easy to replace as gmail, longterm. However If you use Youtube it won't surprise me that Youtube downgrades your performance and user experience in what ever means neccesary on competing browsers.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, changing email address is the hardest of services. Gmail has been my main address for about 15 years. Every single online account I have uses it, and that's in the high hundreds. Maybe if you'd used your own domain with gmail when you started you could hop around some, but not so many people do that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I mean I still have my Gmail account in my mail clients - just every time I get an email on it that's not spam I go to the account settings and change the mail account there

I haven't gotten a mail on it in almost a year so I think I'll unplug it and only login if needed