Update: 14 Jun 2024

RETIRED

After several months and very little interest, I’ve retired most of SGBase. Chat, Meet, and Share are gone now with only Write remaining (write.sgbase.org). The prayer group is making use of it everyday and I use it to collaborate here and there with like minded people.

Researching, testing, and building this was a fun trip – albeit a short one. I learned a bit about some solid software and a bit more about the SG community in general (much more normie than I expected).

sgbase.org

TL;DR - Beta testing private Slack-like chat and video conferencing. If you’re interested in taking part in this beta phase, email me at thalios [at] thalios [dot] org. I’ll get back to you with some rules and a registration link.

Build your own.

It’s something we in the SG community have heard a lot. Some of us have done it. Many of us are trying. We’ve also talked about leaving big tech and trying to use the alternatives. Often we don’t trust the alternative. Or we do, but time and again we discover the alternative is just the another level of gatekeeping, degeneracy, and censorship.

I’ve preached “build your own” and “get off big tech” a lot over the years and I do my best to walk the talk. I’ve hosted my own email/domains for over two decades. I run an alternative OS on my phone (but… it’s a Google Pixel). I haven’t had Windows or Apple on any of my personal tech for a few years now. I roll my own when I can — almost always at the cost of my time and a lack of usability/feature set of the thing.

Building your own isn’t easy. Whether it’s a garden, a charity, a church, or an internet service, it takes time, focus, and the necessary skills. Sometimes you have the skills. Sometimes you need to learn. All too often though, finding the time and focus is the most difficult of hurdles. Clown world has seen fit to give me a bit of time.

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