Mastodawn

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

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Oliver Seiler Feb 2

@Niall I second Nextcloud - it works really well and you can find commercial hosting providers (not sure if nz based exist but if not plenty of EU based options).

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Oliver Seiler Feb 2

@Niall I run Nextcloud on my nas which keeps all data nicely contained and it's not too hard to set up if (and I know that might well be the show stopper) you know your way around some docker basics

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Andrew Feb 2

@Niall @oseiler TechnologyWise offer a managed NextCloud service running on Catalyst Cloud. All fully sovereign. It is focused at business use though, perhaps still drop them a line?

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Strypey Feb 10

@puck
> TechnologyWise offer a managed NextCloud service running on Catalyst Cloud

Good to know. They have a list of "Open Source Alternatives" here, but TBH it seems a bit dated;

https://www.technologywise.co.nz/latest-news-items/item/6-free-software-alternatives

Also they name the 2 columns "commercial" and "alternatives", which is very early-2000s, and really grinds my gears. MatterMost, for example, is on their "alternatives" list, but it would be plain wrong to say they're not commercial. They don't even publish full source code.

@Niall @oseiler

Open Source Alternatives

We've been working with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for nearly 20 years. Here is a list of common proprietary software products and their FOSS equivalents: Commercial Alternative Access-It, MUSAC, SirsiDynix Koha Library Software Adobe Acrobat PDF Creator Adobe Audition Audacity Adobe I...

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Andrew Feb 10

@Niall @oseiler @strypey The date on that post is 2020. I'll suggest they update it, and provide your feedback. Thank you.

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Strypey

@puck
> I'll suggest they update it, and provide your feedback

Feel free to link them to my post, and provide my email address (in my profile).

If you think they're really interested, I'm happy to email them a list of software suggestions. For a start, I'd suggest "proprietary" instead of "commercial" and "replacements" instead of "alternatives".