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Hi! I just wanted to share my progress and struggles hoping to lighten some moods.

So, i started with switching Form Dropbox to Tresorit, which was actually very easy to do and i am very happy with the change.

Next i cancelled my LinkedIn subscription. That was a bit harder because it took me quite some bravery to send out all those invites and i also lost connection to some former colleagues i really liked. But LinkedIn is bullshit and it became worst lately. Now i don't miss it at all.

At the same time i tried to convince the people arround me to switch from whatsapp to either element or session. Most oft them ignored me and i am kind of scared that noone will ever contact me again and that i will be very lonly in the future. I guess that is part of this journey. I eventually deleted my whatsapp account but not without fear.

Also very hard was cancelling spotify because of all my nice playlists. It had to be done because i used facebook to log-in. I cancelled that as well by now. That was not hard because it is unusable for some years now. I still have to get used to Qobuz but so far i like it.

I also got me one of those degoogled Fairphones which i am using now to write this post. So i will soon be able to close my Google account. Finally! One Problem about that is that it only has one physical slot for sim-cards and my other sim-card hat to become an e-sim. So i also had to switch mobile contract providers because my old one doesn't offer e-sims. That was a hassle and i still hope it will work out fine because i have had this phonenumber since probably 10+ something years and have an emotional connection to it (as it turned out).

Anyway. It is quite some effort but it helps to look back on what is already done. And in case you are also scared that noone will follow you. You are not alone :)