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How to migrate from GMail (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I've had my GMail account for what must be almost 20 years now, and it's pretty ingrained in my life. My mortgage info comes via GMail, my bank statements come via GMail, my health insurance comes via GMail, etc.

Thinking about migrating honestly seems like an insurmountable task. I have no idea where to begin. How the hell do I go about untangling GMail services from my life.

I've potentially been looking to move to Proton for email, but any other suggestions (preferably European based) would be welcome.

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[โ€“] ultranaut@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I recently started using Ente as a Google Photos replacement and it been great so far. Its e2ee with any ML done fully local. The devs seem like they care about the right things and have a good plan to keep building out more features.

[โ€“] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah. I've heard good things about Ente. For me, I was at a storage tier where i was over 100gb of docs & photos, and between 1 & 2TB when you include video. Most hosted services get kinda pricey at those storage tiers.

I didn't really set out to self host, but since in needed to solve for docs, photos, and videos, I just went with self hosting. I'm happy with it, just acknowledging that it's not for everyone