Previously I convinced my partner to use Signal (proud to say we’re using Signal as our main communication method now 
), and I said I was hoping to get more of my friends on there.
While that hasn’t progressed much, I did have one friend (who’s already into privacy) ask me to talk to them outside of Discord, and I chose Signal.
The recent Discord news has certainly given me a push (and good reasons) to switch, and I’m discussing switching with another friend now. Hoping to update you all on that soon.
Other wins these past two weeks:
- Have been trying out Lunatask for tasks, notes, journaling, and relationships after seeing @Henry’s video on it, and I’m liking it a lot (especially the relationships section!)
- Switched from NextDNS to Mullvad DNS after I noticed I was having DNS leaks. Has been nothing but great for me so far, likely not going back since I didn’t use a lot of NextDNS’s features.
- Switched to FUTO Keyboard, really nice to have multilingual input on an offline keyboard without switching keyboard layouts.
- Mostly switched from Tubular (NewPipe) to Grayjay, which can cast to the TV with FCast, it’s nice to watch my YouTube feed on both mobile and TV without logging in to my YouTube account. Been having issues with playback as of late so I do fallback to Tubular sometimes.
- I’ve started slowly building up an offline music library using Seal and CuteMusic. I don’t listen to music very often, but hoping I can build out a library of my favorites and start listening to it. I prefer that over listening to whatever an algorithm thinks I want to listen to.
- I have my TOTP codes on my password manager, Bitwarden, and I don’t feel like getting them off of there (yet), so I decided for now to at least put 2FA on my password manager and store its TOTP code on Bitwarden Authenticator (a completely separate offline auth app)
- Reinstalled some of the FOSS apps I use on my phone, after I realized I could’ve installed them with Obtainium instead of through Aurora Store. Switched from vanilla Signal to Molly while I was at it.
- Switched to Firefox Focus on my phone as the default, currently keeping Brave around for my non-ephemeral browsing needs.
- In the (currently slow) process of switching my personal email from Proton Mail to Tuta. Not really that necessary, I only use it for account logins (largely aliased through addy.io) rather than communication. It’s mostly just that I’m personally not big on the whole Proton ecosystem and the almost “big corp” vibe that they have, plus the Switzerland situation. Tuta running on renewable energy is nice as well :]
Lastly, not exactly a win (yet) but I’ve been strongly considering deleting my personal Instagram account since I’m not using it a whole lot even just for messaging. And getting notified for every message does get annoying when almost all of them are just friends bombarding me with Reels.