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The AWS outage hit us during the day in Australia. I didn't notice because I run my own server, btw
(aussie.zone)
And then I read about someone’s smart bed that got stuck in an upright position on heat mode because of the outage. Makes me feel like all that time sourcing devices that run locally was worth it.
Are we just digital preppers?
Edit: I get it, you aren't preppers, I'm sorry I said that.
From reading your comments I have gathered that you simply want to be ready (not prepared!) for when a free service becomes paid or they shut something down that you use or you simply don't like the idea of the gubbermint or the corporations being able to look though your data.
Many of you seem aware that your concerns are considered far fetched or like non issues by the average person.
well you are preppers, I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
Signal went down. Setting up XMPP sounds tricky.
setting up a multi platform, secure, free and well built messaging platform that can be adapted to use decentralised networks like LoRa? easy
Getting your friends and family to use it? literally impossible
Look into DeltaChat
XMPP is actually super easy to setup with Prosody. Highly recommend giving it a try. The hardest part is getting all the SRV records right in your DNS.
It's particularly awesome if you set it up to use the same user and domain as your email(s), and then your email and XMPP IDs are the same!