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Cake day: December 5th, 2023

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  • Yes! (I assume that it is an option regardless of country)

    I thought I would still want to use my YouTube account because I didn’t know how to troubleshoot Piped Video yet, but in the end it has still been useful because I am still hosting some stuff on Google Drive for other people.

    Dig around the data/privacy part of myaccount.google.com and you should find it. It asks you to enter a new email address, and once you have confirmed it, it will delete the Gmail.

    edit: I guess YMMV - I did this a while back, so please pay attention to whatever warnings it gives you when you elect to delete the Gmail, because I feel like there might be some non-mail interactions that might be involved, or that it may have changed since I did it. also, obviously, I did this step after I was comfortable completely losing access to my email, and had stopped using the app store (what OP was inquiring about)


  • 087008001234@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlSTOP CENSORORING ME TANKIES
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    5 months ago

    I mean, the theory is what people are supposed to be putting into practice.

    I feel like your response is a bit combative and is not actually engaging with what I am trying to say, and it makes sense at the end of this that you have a perception that you’re getting moderated… because you are being an asshole.

    edit: also, even in my comment I said that they’d be bad Marxists IF THEY DIDN’T practice the theory. I gave that to you, and you steamrolled right past it.



  • 087008001234@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlagile is far left too. I will die on this hill
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    Thank you for everything you said in the back half! In regards to the first idea – do you think agile is half way to self-management because of its attributes, or because it is something to get people making software in a structured capacity? I live in a world of bad agiles and agile cynics, and so I wonder if I am missing some nuance you may have intended. I guess I ask because I agree with everything you have said but don’t see agile methodology as being important to spreading this message myself.






  • Regardless of whether you decide on self-hosting, or ProtonMail/Tutanota as has been suggested, make sure your choice gives you good freedom to roam. If you’re picking a webmail provider, consider prioritizing arbitrary email clients (Thunderbird, etc). Being able to click-drag your entire email backlog to a hard disk folder might be something you want down the road. Similarly - do some research about data portability options they may offer like XML backups. If we decide ProtonMail and Tutanota suck in ten years, you would probably feel pretty defeated – like you ended up with Gmail 2.0.

    I just keep telling people to basically “know their rights” and figure out what options they will have to the new service they are signing up to.


  • Like others said, definitely a slow process. Sign up your new, necessary accounts to your new address and port your old existing accounts over a day at a time.

    Once you have ported an account over you can mass delete emails relevant to that service. You could also keep a log of everything you have ported. Or both.

    You can also straight up delete the accounts you don’t need anymore, if thats part of your goal, or something you would find satisfying. Same thing - deleting all of the emails relevant to it afterwards. Eventually you will be able to scroll through years of email without seeing anything you are worried about losing.

    Doing this passively, with little time investment over the course of a few years… one day you’re done and ready to cut the cord.