DeGoogle Yourself

7743 readers

1 users here now

A community for those that would like to get away from Google.

Here you may post anything related to DeGoogling, why we should do it or good software alternatives!

Rules

Be respectful even in disagreement
No advertising unless it is very relevent and justified. Do not do this excessively.
No low value posts / memes. We or you need to learn, or discuss something.

Related communities

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Byereddithellolemmy

[email protected]

How the hell should I even switch mail providers? (self.degoogle)

submitted 6 months ago by Persen to c/[email protected]

34 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I have completely stopped using google services and software on my personal devices (even have lineageos + microg on my phone. The problem is that I can't just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Set up auto forwarder from gmail to your new account

Tell people you changed email address

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I'd recommend having a tag set up for Google forwarded mail in your new account, so you can change addresses of people/companies that still use your old email address.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Autoforwarder and autoreply. Tell them automatically 😊

[–] sga 2 points 6 months ago

and alongside that, include your new mail as the reply to address, hopefully people will click for that while replying, and eventually save/use the new mail