[Animats]

Why is this hard? Since I quit offering a Chrome plug-in, my last connection to a Google account is gone. I should cancel my Google account, if and when I find the password.

I post videos on Hardlimit, which uses PeerTube. I don't care about "discovery"; they're to illustrate blog postings elsewhere. So all I need is hosting and playout, which Peertube does just fine. (Peertube handles playout by mooching bandwidth off of other people using Peertube. So it can scale if many people are watching the same video. Permanent storage, though, is not distributed. It's not Bittorrent.)

I've been using LibreOffice and its predecessors for decades now. My last purchase of a Microsoft product was Word 97. Desktop browser is Firefox. Mail client is Thunderbird. Backups are IDrive. Add blocking is the EFF's Privacy Badger, which breaks many ad systems while enforcing privacy.

My phone uses F-Droid. It is not connected to a Google account. Browser is Fennec. App store is F-Droid. Search is DuckDuckGo.

What's the problem?

[kelnos]

The "problem" is that other people have different needs and usage patterns than you do. Acting like your experience should be universal is a bit weird.

[stalfosknight]

It's not hard but many don't want to let go of YouTube or Gmail for some reason.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> for some reason

Because nobody else has a content library to rival YT. (Gmail I don't know; this should be relatively easy to switch.)

[hot_gril]

What's your email provider?

[Animats]

Outgoing is Sonic.

Incoming is a site of my own, "animats.com".

[afavour]

> What’s the problem?

…did you read the article?

The author lists the Google alternatives they’ve been using, along with both the successes and the problems with those alternatives.