<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">If you *really* want to be free of big tech you need to self host.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">OpenStack to create a private cloud. There are smaller providers offering Openstack PAAS. OKD/Openshift to run kubernetes on any cloud including OpenStack, vSphere.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Self hosted gitlab to replace github & also do CI/CD. Argo CD is another one (& has an operator to run on openshift with a click)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Openshift has lots of Operators to launch various databases and other apps on itself.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://freeotp.github.io/">https://freeotp.github.io/ </a>for 2FA<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I haven't used these:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://jitsi.org/">https://jitsi.org/</a> to replace zoom/teams/google meet. I don't know how it is for chat.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.freeipa.org/">https://www.freeipa.org/</a> for authentication <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:41 AM <<a href="mailto:jonathan@linowes.com">jonathan@linowes.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8534491962286623350WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hello, I long for the days when the Internet represented freedom and open exchange of ideas. I’ve become increasingly disgusted by big tech’s repression of Free Speech, and I’ve now reached my tipping point. Likewise, I realize I’ve grown too comfortable and reliant on the Facebooks, Googles, Amazons and plan to move (back) to open source software and independent services as much as possible. (So far Microsoft seems to be staying out of the SJW / cancel culture game). I am wondering what advise you might give with regard to alternatives for<u></u><u></u></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="gmail-m_-8534491962286623350MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Browser<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-8534491962286623350MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Email (server and client)<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-8534491962286623350MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Server hosting (web, database)<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-8534491962286623350MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Authentication services (for apps I build)<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-8534491962286623350MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Messaging, team communications<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-8534491962286623350MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Other tools and services that you rely on for development and operations<u></u><u></u></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jonathan<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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