I am a phone scroller and social media reader and a YouTube watcher. My phone and by extension my Google account are my mobile office. I regret having to buy an Apple Mac Mini but I am not giving up Logic as my DAW. I got away from overpriced Samsung devices a few years ago and have a fairly bloat-free Motorola. Now I want to dump the Google ecosystem. I intend to download all of my pics and files from Drive and the Google cloud. I am not so tech savvy that I can install APKs or switch to Linux, and I’d like to watch video streamers that aren’t saturated in developer links (seriously, why do y’all do this?..just put one simple link to “Developer Info” or something and put all the other links there). I want to use and enjoy the net like any idiot would but without being The Product. I am Lemmy over Reddit (though you both ban me from subs with equal ferver); MeWe over Facebook (though MeWe is moving towards an unprivate model now); Mastodon over Xittstain. I have a ProtonMail account, but mainly for registrations…I have had a Gmail account since Earthlink took a nosedive.
What/who else is out there for me to frequent and replace all the corporatist models?in the past I tried Minds (all Nazis all the time!) and Ello (socmed for creative types, yet still looks like a shitty 1970’s mimeographed zine). I also spent a couple of years at one called MyBetzCo that started out okay but died because none of the members would make public posts for interacting with others.
What do you recommend for private/decentralizwd clouds, socmeds or media sites?
If you need Logic as your DAW you’re locked into the Mac ecosystem in that regard.
Yeah, about that…I have lots of reasons to despise Apple even after being a fanboi for a few years. Nevertheless, I can’t beat Logic and have no desire to…however, I dont do much net stuff on that computer anyway…it’s just my DAW.
I’d keep the Mac just for Logic honestly. After Logic X it was game over, man. I got stuck in that Logic and Pro Tools double whammy for a while, and everything but my wallet was loving it. Its hard to beat Logic for creating.
Yeah, I’m def keeping that…I actually bought it new last March. It replaced my EBay 2011 Mac Mini and my EBay 2005 Mini.
I moved from Logic to Ardour and I’m pretty happy (but I understand that Logic is hard to beat).