My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

[_elena@mastodon.social]

My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

[andycarolan@social.lol]

@_elena I would love to move from a lot of the big tech services that I use.

The likes of Adobe CC, Webflow and Intuit are destroying me with the price increases. But they are all essential for my work.

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[iloo@mastodon.social]

@_elena Would definetely listen to a podcast like that 🤩

[andycarolan@social.lol]

@_elena I have looked into it on a few occasions, and was close to moving to Affinity. But then Canva bought them.

I remember you saying about AE. It's definitely most people's go-to app for that kind of thing.

Even between just Adobe, Webflow and Quickbooks, I'm paying over £100 a month 😩

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[sturmsucht@mastodon.social]

@_elena oh, count me in!

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@_elena looking forward to these podcasts about self hosting…

[sylvia@social.lol]

@_elena You warrior! And yes, they give me hope too 🙂

[elopup@mastodon.social]

@_elena

Great idea 🙌🏻 !

I think a podcast could reach even more ppl, who rather listen to podcasts than reading longer blogs. Maybe even with guests sometimes 🤷🏻?

With your projects you’re not just giving yourself hope, but also others 😊 🚀

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

@_elena your departure from big tech and embrace of open source and foss mirrors my own personal journey also in timeline!

I’ve been planting the seeds to get my professional livelihood from ethical tech consulting so that’s my primary focus for the 1st quarter of the year. Then alongside I’ll continue with my mission of raising and helping regular people untangle themselves from big tech.

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

@_elena @Iloo @Castopod
This is a target audience that certainly needs the help and guidance.
I’m doing that for my family, in-laws, parents, friends and neighbours.
Will certainly tune them to such a podcast if I will provide non techies the tool, tips, insights and most importantly the courage to take the first steps themselves or purchase managed services from ethical providers.

[thecyberwitch@mastodon.social]

@_elena yep the cost and knowledge makes FOSS and self-hosting feel inaccessible to most. In the long run it definitely saves much more, but anything to make it feel like less of a hurdle to friends and family.

I say start with having them practice booting to USB and VMs, dip their toes in and build their confidence.

[gnomulf@social.vivaldi.net]

@_elena As a busy dad, i dont have the time to set things up any more, and self hosting is seldom plug and play... I set up Home Assistant on a raspi, but it took time. More plug and play self hosting pls! 🙂 And i dont want to have 100 raspberry pis running things neither, so some sort of virtualization would be nice also.

[snakeoilsalesman@mastodon.social]

@_elena its so fun switching off these mega-corp platforms and apps. you realize you don't actually need most of them at all.

[alcinnz@floss.social]

@_elena My way of rebelling: Teach compsci whilst painting a positive vision for computing, to show how narrow-minded these powerful fools are!

And yes, I would check out your podcast.

[justbob@kolektiva.social]

@_elena

I love it and that is why I added your RSS to #TidySearch 🥰

[hielseitan@mastodon.social]

@_elena
https://mastodon.social/@HielSeitan/115721195689700941

[anne_twain@theblower.au]

@_elena You're needed.