We’re reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.

Now more than ever, it’s important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.

For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:

Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.

Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.

This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its’ users.

  • nullptr@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I ran PhotoPrism on my home server for awhile but realized it was a bit overkill for my use case. Now I just use my NAS server’s built in photo gallery app (QNAP Photo Station), in which I can create shared albums that I can expose to the internet with Caddy server acting as reverse proxy and an extra authentication layer. I have a custom domain that hosts the photo gallery so I can copy and paste a magic URL plus login credentials into a Signal chat to anyone who asks (and whom I trust).