Oddbean

Starve them slowly Every minute you spend on nostr vs twitter is a win Every minute you spend on fountain vs netflix is a win Every dollar you spend on bitcoin vs Nike sneakers is a win One thing at a time One person at a time One day at a time The platforms are being built The choice is yours

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💯 💯💯 I've started the long and arduous jouney of migrating all of my files and photos away from iCloud to a home server. Once that is complete, I will move onto the hellscape that is backing up and deactivating all of my Google accounts. That one is really going to suck. I never realized just how dangerous, "login with Google" would be. They made it incredibly difficult to rip off the bandaid and quit using their service, without also losing access to hundreds of other sites.

I am also looking into doing this. It is a very big mountain ahead. What are you using for a home server? Thankfully I don’t have much on the cloud. Most is on an external drive. But I do want a little more out of it so I’m looking into the Start9.

Getting off Google is a huge pain in the ass (but of course worth it, and good for you attacking it this year). I had many hundreds of Gb of photos etc. and Google Takeout is such a mess I ported it all manually via local drive syncs for Google and OneDrive. I now have OneDrive sync’d to local removable storage that is my master for everything (I rotate local drives between two locations every couple of years). I know having cloud storage at all is a concern but it also has a lot of utility for me, I am content knowing it’s not a single point of failure for anything, and that I am locally data-sovereign if they kill the internet.