4 ms·

One point is that you often don't really hear about the people who care enough to avoid much "social media" and cloud services... because they're avoiding many

One point is that you often don't really hear about the people who care enough to avoid much "social media" and cloud services... because they're avoiding many of the tools by which they might talk about it. They're also relatively uncommon, and if your friend group pretty much requires use of social media tools to stick together, you're not going to find them. At the moment, I use GMail, IRC, a Matrix server I set up for my hackspace, a couple of niche forums, and a niche social network. I'm in the process of organising some hackspace servers to provide email hosting, so hopefully I'll be able to switch off of GMail at some point. The next step after that would be some form of cloud file hosting. I'm not overly privacy-conscious though - I've used Tor once to see what the fuss is about, and I don't have AdBlock or NoScript installed. But at least I avoid explicitly putting my data in the hands of companies I have no control over as much as possible.

TeMPOraL 10y ago
I have a similar situations. In a hackerspace I manage, we're still using GMail and Google Docs for collaboration. We're slowly moving to self-hosted services, like OwnCloud, but we can only do that because we're an established group of people. Back when the space was forming, there was no one willing to shoulder the sysadmin responsibilities for managing all the tools we needed to start and grow the organization. -- What we need is separation of virtual machines from the code they run. Exchangable backends, if you like. We should be able to use cloud tools like e.g. Google Docs while also being able to choose our own backend - whether this or that cloud, or even our own servers. Right now, instead of running someone else's code on our data (as it is with files and local work), we're giving third parties our data for them to run the code for us.
- vertex-four 10y ago
  You're pretty much describing Sandstorm, for the record. Have you had a play with it?
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    Not yet. Will have to schedule some time for it.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

I have a similar situations. In a hackerspace I manage, we're still using GMail and Google Docs for collaboration. We're slowly moving to self-hosted services, like OwnCloud, but we can only do that because we're an established group of people. Back when the space was forming, there was no one willing to shoulder the sysadmin responsibilities for managing all the tools we needed to start and grow the organization. -- What we need is separation of virtual machines from the code they run. Exchangable backends, if you like. We should be able to use cloud tools like e.g. Google Docs while also being able to choose our own backend - whether this or that cloud, or even our own servers. Right now, instead of running someone else's code on our data (as it is with files and local work), we're giving third parties our data for them to run the code for us.

vertex-four 10y ago
You're pretty much describing Sandstorm, for the record. Have you had a play with it?
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Not yet. Will have to schedule some time for it.