I’m probably overthinking it, but I’m interested to hear how people approach this.

So I’m leaning more into FOSS and degoogling, so I ordered a Pixel for GOS.

However, I recently learned that GOS recommends Play Store before any FOSS app stores.

That kind of broke my brain and had me evaluating my goals and philosophy.

Do you folks just set up a different GOS profile for Google stuff and keep using apps from Play Store without a second thought?

Or do you lean into FOSS apps as much as possible?

Or do you try to self-host as much as you can?

I’m kind of just looking for a North Star to follow here.

I’ve been self-hosting with Immich and Nextcloud for a couple of months and thought I had a new philosophy to live by, hence the Pixel purchase and GOS plans.

However, learning that the values of GOS don’t align perfectly with FOSS has disrupted my posture a bit.

It’s not very satisfying straddling privacy-centric apps/services alongside popular services that want all your data, especially taking into consideration the efforts required to go down the path of more privacy.

  • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Personally I like the pragmatic way, choosing the good over chasing the perfect. Privacy doesn’t have to be all or nothing, the less these companies know about you thw better. Find your own trade-off between privacy and convenience. It might change over time too, maybe you’ll get deeper into it here or get fed up with it elsewhere

    • yestalgia@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      I hear you on “black and white” or “all or nothing” thinking.

      But I literally don’t even know what’s guiding my decision to pick an app on Play Store vs F-Droid now.

      Play Store = More trust but more tracking

      Foss = Less trust but less tracking

      Self-hosting has been really satisfying, but still, I’m moving my trust model to myself in how I’ve set things up as well as the apps that facilitate it.

      It just feels like floundering in this pursuit if the concepts of privacy and security have so many different perspectives and gotchas.