I have been going down this path for years and already do most of the things you mentioned. It is very time consuming, yes, but the experience of hosting your own communication platforms and cloud data services on a private server is something I wouldn't trade for anything.
As a side note, a few months ago I set up gaw.social using the Matrix platform like you mentioned. Its still up and running though I have been too busy lately to promote it so activity has pretty much died. But if there was a resurgence I'd probably dedicate some time to picking it back up and making some upgrades.
It really is a daunting task to decouple from big tech services. It's taken me years as well, and I am still not done. Wouldn't go back if I had the choice though.
It's truly frightening in hindsight how dependent we all are on outsourced web services. I mean it's gotten to the point where people's entire smart home is controlled by some centralised server in China; the internet goes down and you can't control your lights lol. The holy grail for me is a local voice assistant that doesn't touch the internet. Unfortunately the current offerings can't match the cloud options from Amazon, Google and Apple.
I have been going down this path for years and already do most of the things you mentioned. It is very time consuming, yes, but the experience of hosting your own communication platforms and cloud data services on a private server is something I wouldn't trade for anything.
As a side note, a few months ago I set up gaw.social using the Matrix platform like you mentioned. Its still up and running though I have been too busy lately to promote it so activity has pretty much died. But if there was a resurgence I'd probably dedicate some time to picking it back up and making some upgrades.
It really is a daunting task to decouple from big tech services. It's taken me years as well, and I am still not done. Wouldn't go back if I had the choice though.
It's truly frightening in hindsight how dependent we all are on outsourced web services. I mean it's gotten to the point where people's entire smart home is controlled by some centralised server in China; the internet goes down and you can't control your lights lol. The holy grail for me is a local voice assistant that doesn't touch the internet. Unfortunately the current offerings can't match the cloud options from Amazon, Google and Apple.