Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to talk about slowly over time transitioning away from things!
Slow Transition
Transitioning is always a challenge.
One of the things that I've been fortunate enough to do, is make the slow progression and transition away from some of the more well known services, into ones that are lesser known.
I don't think that it's necessarily a bad idea to try and make sure that you are taking your information from one resource who is intentionally selling, distributing and abusing your data, to someone who respects it a bit more. Granted, we can't really trust anyone these days, but at least there is a semblance of an idea that it's better on the other side.
I've been taking and transitioning away the various calendar things that I use on the personal side, and flipping it onto the more private one. Not that I have all kinds of fantastical details associated, but the normal everyday stuff. In the days ending 2025, there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the popular companies like G*#gle make a pretty penny off harvesting and selling your data.
It's not like they need to do it anyway, but it gives other companies a considerable insight into your life where they can use that to target you for all kinds of things. Thankfully most of that is pretty normal and harmless at the moment, it's typically just trying to figure out different ways to sell you shit, often shit you don't need. That data makes a lot of money for these people, so of course they gobble it up and down.
When we start to dismantle their matrix in our personal lives, we are able to take back some of that privacy and information one step at a time. The more difficult we make it for them to get the information, the more they will just move onto easier targets. Not that I want to throw my neighbors under the bus, but it's a dog-eat-dog world and it's good to have a more vulnerable dog get eaten sometimes, as difficult as that may be to think and visualize.
I think this has been an interesting and good phased approach. I started with emails, moving it away from said company above that many hundreds of millions of people use, over to more secure ones like Proton. There is another company I am trialing as well that seems pretty cool! It's called Tuta, and it's similar to Proton in that it's privacy focused and has some pretty cool benefits. I haven't kept up with them in a bit but I have an account that I've used for a service or two, so it's good to spread things out.
I think for nothing else, it's just important to do this so that we can not have our information strewn across the whole web for anyone to find it and abuse it. There are lots of other benefits, but the easiest one is to start with that! The migration has taken me a while though, because not everyone is on board so you have to use some of the old with most of the new. It's all about balance!
What about you, do you try to migrate things in your life such as this from the old companies with old, poor practices over to newer, healthier ones? Let me know in the comments!
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Man, not bad idea at all. I gotta redo an email account, freshen it up with a new handle. And yeah, screw their monopoly 😆. Let's keep rockin into the new year.
Yeah dude there's lots of better and new options out there! Tuta is a cool one it's a German encrypted email, I hope they are still around but the encrypted choices are good! For the simple fact they don't need to read your emails
Mostly done this on the browser front, haven't used Chrome or related browsers for awhile. Only use DuckDuckGo nowadays. I've heard of proton email, didn't get to sign up as not much of use for it now. I try to take the same approach with social media, but it's very hard lol. At least for YouTube and X, the rest are easier to drop and forget about.
Yeah I think it's good to transition things away! Each step is a good step in the right direction. You'll find the time or need to migrate to encrypted choices like proton or Tuta one day I think!