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 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.

@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