I am starting a deep tech cleanse for me and my family. The goal is to minimize dependency on large US tech. I'm intentionally not self hosting everything but looking for off-shore medium and small providers that respect privacy and don't sell data. Not looking for perfect solutions, just reasonable alternatives (thread) #privacy #degoogle
Migrated away from #google search to #kagi. Can't say enough nice things about that service. Yes, you pay. And in return you get what google felt like before it fully enshitified. There are AI features, but they are easily turned off, and they will even optionally derank AI results. There is a kid-friendly version in our family plan which is perfect for learning and research without wading thru slop.
Migrating away from #GooglePhotos to #ente. I entertained the idea of self hosting with #immich since it looks pretty and seems to be very active. Decided against it mostly out of convenience. Don't want to maintain an image of immich and manage redundant backups. I'll have our fam's ente photos backed up locally periodically. I have been a proud subscriber of #flickr for 20 years, but I need to be honest with myself that I hardly ever use it and its social features feel naive for our era.
@eeejay Just looking at Ente for the first time. I still have another 2 years of Lightroom since leaving Adobe, but I need my single source of truth to be on my home NAS, and it really doesn’t like that.