Internet/Cloud service talk

[SiriusB]

The question of alternatives to the big player (Google, Microsoft, Amazon) based services like mail, messaging, cloud storage etc. plague me for years. In the following is my current service stack listed. All below services are run and/or are developed by mostly whites --as far as I am aware. I'd like to know which Aryan approved services you use.

Mail:

Secure email: ProtonMail is free encrypted email.

and Hosted Exchange for the more demanding user:
https://www.ovh.com/us/emails/hosted-exchange/

OVH is a french company. I am very satisified with the service quality and uptime.

Cloud Storage (Dropbox/Doogle Drive alternative):
https://www.jottacloud.com/en/

They write:

Jottacloud is a Norwegian company that operates under Norwegian jurisdiction. Firms based in the US might be forced to hand over their stored information to the authorities. No one will get insight into the data stored with us.

Also they have Unlimited Storage and you can backup many devices and not just one. Nice.

Social Media:

Minds

Messaging/Chat:

Discord - Free voice and text chat for gamers

https://telegram.org/

Telegram is russian and they have a strong privacy policy combined with encrypted and-to-end chats and self destructing messages, they where in the news recently:

Secure Messaging App Telegram Concedes to Russian Registration Request

I am rather satisfied with this setup what I am still missing is a gamer OS alternative to Windows (Probably won't ever happen in my lifetime). A fully encrypted note taking app that is as good as Evernote.

[AtlRedskull]

I just loaded up a new app today called demonsaw. Supposed to be a good chat/file transfer client
https://www.demonsaw.com/
Ill be testing it out!

[2jews1oven]

For private messaging/chat between you and others that doesn't rely on a company, you or a trusted person can rent a VPS or use a physical server to host a XMPP server which you can think of as a chat protocol (alot of people seem to use 'ejabberd' as the server software). You can make chat accounts for people you want to let into the server though I'm not sure if you can stop people from making their own accounts, which is something you would want to do if you want to limit accounts to only people you trust. Users can use their own XMPP client to chat with others on your server. I would recommend 'Conversations' which is on F-Droid on android and probably on the Google Play store. You can choose which encryption method you want to use and can tunnel all your traffic through Tor using Orbot, so your IP address can stay hidden from the server if you want that. If everyone in the group is technically proficient, you can just have everyone SSH into a server and connect to a locally hosted IRC server and chat that way, or even just tail into a file.

As for cloud storage, there are software solutions you can set up on your own hardware or a VPS to have your own private cloud storage which cuts out the company middleman and prevents them from data mining your stuff. You have a few choices which are listed here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synchronization_and_backup_programs#Custom_infrastructure

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nextcloud

Mumble is good for self-hosted voice chat. Both voice and text traffic is encrypted by default and the server can be password protected. Small images can be posted into the chat and channels can be created. Again, no middleman data-mining your stuff. Teamspeak can be used but it is proprietary and doesn't have encryption on by default, which isn't huge but I still prefer Mumble.

All of these programs can and should be hosted on a Linux distro, not on Windows. Lower hardware requirements, less bandwidth needed to administrate, more control, no botnet.