Notices by Grow Your Own Services (homegrown@social.growyourown.services)

Hey there!

I'm trying to make a list of places that sell de-googlised smartphones ready to use straight out of the box.

So far I've got https://murena.com

Are there any others?

#AskFedi #AskFediverse #AskMastodon

#Vimeo used to be the main place that indie video makers uploaded their creations.

But now Vimeo has started screwing small creators:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase

You don't need Vimeo (or #YouTube) to publish your videos on the internet. There's a truly independent alternative called #PeerTube:

https://joinpeertube.org

You can create your own PeerTube server very easily through managed hosting from https://federation.spacebear.ee or https://cloud68.co/instances/peertube

#SelfHosting #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown

Because PeerTube servers are independently owned and run, they can't have the rug pulled from under them the way Vimeo and YouTube have now done.

A homegrown server is entirely yours and under your control. No one can suddenly take it away or demand a bill for thousands of dollars.

A few years ago, YouTube decided to shut down the software maker Blender's channel without warning or explanation. Fortunately, Blender also have their own PeerTube instance to use instead: https://video.blender.org