After about 3 months of De-Googling and looking for more FOSS/private solutions for the services I use in general I'm about to throw in the towel and just dump what I have back in Google. Am I the only one who realizes I'm missing out leaving an ecosystem? Why is this so fucking hard to put together?
The biggest issue? I've given up 10+ years of technology and feel like I'm trapped back in 2005 in nearly every service I use.
@chris What is it about the FOSS/private solutions that make you feel like being trapped back in 2005?
I've been starting to think that I should spend more of my personal project time in contributing to one or more of the FOSS "de-google" projects. So I am very curious to know what need you are seeing, in case it might line up with my skills/interests as something to invest time in helping improve.
@chris My current nebulous thoughts on it all is that we (the FOSS/Fediverse community sort of people) need to figure out how to basically make it all like appliances that Just Work.
Things like the #freedombox are in the right direction, but the self-hosted services I'm interested in aren't all on that (yet?).
A more-or-less turnkey #nextcloud + #mastodon + ___ would almost do it for me. I can roll my own, but it gets tiring.
I haven't a clue how I'd replace Google Maps, though. :/
@freedomboxfndn Good to know, thanks! I'll impatiently wait for the new features :)
@Trussell Maybe it's more that I just miss the information available with GMaps but OSM has felt less than adequate.
@kcoram
Thanks for the shout-out, Kevin! You're right that FreedomBox is missing some in-demand features, like Nextcloud and an e-mail server. But we're working on it, and we appreciate your support in the meantime.