My problem switching off of gmail is that I’d really like to start moving to an alias-based approach (so, you know, [email protected] for Lemmy emails, etc.) but this then conflates two issues so I solve neither....
I wrote this comprehensive guide about how to handle Google Takeout in order to export your Google Photos before Google’s free high quality photo storage goes away next year and how to subsequently make your export usable. It’s intended for all audiences, but the overall message skews toward de-googling....