All of [*gestures around*] this has unlocked my open source/self hosting/decentralization era. Big tech needs us more than we need them.
Happy to say I’m officially Google-free for email and docs. Moved all my email to Fastmail, transitioned everything I control away from Google Drive, and I’m feeling very relieved about it all.
@tony wow very good I am a couple of years into the migration with my fam, email last, makes me nervous

@tony well done. We did it few years ago. Never looked back.

Just a tip, Google is sneaky, now they put your mails to any gmail accounts into spam folder.

@tony what did you move to for docs?
@tony great move! I detoxed from Google 2 years ago and did not look back.
Can also recommend @GrapheneOS to avoid feeding the beast just by using Android
@tony Cool. Luckily I never dipped my toe in that water puddle
@tony congrats! I love Fastmail so much.
@tony This is true Tony. There are so many resources for self hosting of everything from documents to email, and of course, social as you’ve discovered. Unfortunately it does take a bit if knowledge to run some of these things. But outside of email (which can be particularly difficult to self host) the rest of the tools are getting easier and easier. It makes me think it might be worth pulling together a list of resources like this for journalists moving forward.
@crscheid @tony speaking as a boomer early adopter, .that would be welcome! (It just gets harder and harder, especially now I'm focused on kickboxing. )
@tony I self-hosted everything last century, co-located with @nazgul until his house burned, and have been mostly on Google since then for email, file storage, and DNS. My website is still at nearlyfreespeech.net but hasn’t been updated in a decade. I would love to move off Google, but I’m willing to risk the small corporate threat in exchange for protection from the (in my estimation) much more numerous threats. Say what you want about Google, but their security and backups are great.
Shout out for FOSS bookkeeping software. Abandoned M$ Money and Quicken/Quickbooks when Money was sunsetted and never looked back
@rchattopadhyay Can't help but think this shoutout would be more effective if you actually named the software.
@lloydsmart Oops, that would have been more useful. It’s GnuCash at www.gnucash.org. Runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac.