Raglan Niall  Feb 2

Boost for reach please!

Does anyone know of a turnkey 'de-bigtech' solution, service or facilitator? My attempts have stalled and fallen into the 'too hard' basket. I am willing to pay. Not sure how much.. what's your price? Preferably NZ based but most locations except USA and hell considered.

My main email is somewhere I'm happy with but I need to point a number of my subscriptions to it instead of Google.
Photos are all in Google
Files mainly Dropbox
Phone Android
OS Linux on a laptop, win on desktop
Software almost all FOSS/Linux except a couple of things which only run nicely on windows.

Nexcloud plus graphene(?) phone plus Linux seems like it could work but I am 100% sure I'm not the one to do it.

#EscapeBigTech
#TechHelp
#DeGoogle

Show threadmahadevankFeb 2

@Niall hi Raglan, let's connect? I'd love to help you out with this.

We run a platform that makes it easy to host open-source solutions, we designed it for non-tech users.

Our servers are in India, but we can easily setup an account for you in any AWS region of your choice.

Show threadRaglan Niall  Feb 2
@mahadevank AWS?! Thanks but that's kinda missing the point.
Show threadmahadevankFeb 2

@Niall that's step #1 - digital surveillance still disappears the moment you run your own software, and the data belongs to you, even if you're on AWS.

We are actively working with other options and as soon as we have a provider that integrates well, we'll be off AWS as well.

Coming off Big Tech is a process. If we try to do it all in one go, it gets very difficult.

Show threadRaglan Niall  
@mahadevank yes, it's a process, you're right. If AWS is involved at present then at present I'm out, sorry.
Feb 2 at 9:37amWeb
Show threadmahadevankFeb 2
@Niall Not a problem, and thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. I’ll add an additional vote for hosting outside of big tech on our product roadmap
Show threadStrypeyFeb 10

@mahadevank
> I’ll add an additional vote for hosting outside of big tech on our product roadmap

Seriously planning a move off AWS is the best way to find out of you *can* move off AWS. Even if you decide they're your best option for now.

AWS have all sorts of proprietary ways of doing things, which they justify as helping customers in some way, but it's really just to lock them in.

I'm with @Niall though. A dependence on AWS is a liability.