[edpichler]

Man, I am on weeks thinking on the same problem you wrote here.

I am tired of uploading my content on sites like Facebook, or Google. Short story: once I uploaded a personal video on Youtube, and they removed forever because there was a ACDC music on the environment. It was precious, and I lost it forever (forgot to do backup).

I am thinking on buying a domain to me, and create a blog to share albums just with people I want, create a newsletter for some topics, and keep my memories and all my data on my servers (and my backups, online and offline).

Social networks would be used just to promote some link or content I want to share.

I sow some interesting things on https://indieweb.org/

[psyc]

YouTube deleted my entire channel because one video had music in the background. No reinstatement, it's just gone. Then they deleted another of my channels, and that whole Google account, and gave no reason - and I can't think of any.