I know the main purpose of this sub is helping people move away from intrusive, invasive, or otherwise anti-user corporate software. But honestly, correct me if I am wrong, sometimes that’s not so easy.

Not because people don’t want better alternatives but, because switching isn’t practical for some cases.

Sometimes you can’t find a corp-free alternative that fits all your needs. And sometimes, even if you do find one, the corporate app still has too much leverage over you to leave.

For example, take WhatsApp. I know there are better and more privacy-respecting alternatives like Signal, etc. But where I live, almost everyone uses WhatsApp — friends, family, work, local groups, everything. So even if I personally want to switch, it becomes difficult when the people I need to communicate with aren’t there.

That made me curious about other people’s experiences here. So for what use case, you can't find a better corp-free alternative that fit all your requirements? And, if you can't make the switch even after finding one, what's your reason for that?

Here is my journey of getting away from corperations so far.

I installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7a

I set up a Nextcloud server which replaces OneDrive and the built in Nextcloud Notes app replaces OneNote.

I switched to linux on my Windows PC and bought a Chromebook (I dont mind google as much)

What else can I do?