Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help
twinnie@feddit.uk 5 days agoSounds kinda like MS could tell the account wasn’t being used anymore and decided to kill it off rather than leave it to get hacked again. Still, it’s scary to think that MA might delete my account and I’d lose all my online backups. My daily photos are backed up on there.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
That’s why a lot of folk - okay a tiny amount of dedicated folk - are switching to open source alts or self hosting their own to maximise privacy and actually own their digital media, while keeping some of the comforts of modern technology.
I use a basic SMB shared drive as my own ‘cloud’, and (Android) FolderSync to periodically sync my phone’s folders to it. I then back up that folder to a memory stick. But I’ve been experimenting with something that gives you the true UX of a cloud service - NextCloud. It’s good.
Microsoft has been making a lot of anti-consumer moves recently, so it feels even more necessary to cut off dependency to them and the other giant megacorps.