Google is dead. Where do we go now?

Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by naravara on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:57PM (#46428620)

I’ve been thinking about setting up a family domain and just hosting my family’s pictures to it as a way to share internally. But the risk exposure of running anything online is just so bad now, it feels risky and a pain in the ass to both give family access to see and post but also seal it off from spammers and scammers.

The way in which any open text box on the internet is guaranteed to turn into a malware vector is new now, and makes casual and marginally technical users trying their own thing much higher stakes and annoying.

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Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by esseph on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:35PM (#46428873)

If you setup a server at home, you can expose it via a cloudflare tunnel, meanwhile it's behind your firewall + NAT. This will obfuscate the server IP a bit. It allows allows you to use very simple cloudflare Zero Trust rules to only allow people to access your server/website from people with a user account on that domain. (Or geographical restrictions, etc, etc)

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Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by Bombthecat on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @04:13AM (#46431183)

I was thinking about something similar. ( Family photo sharing) The problem is: family is so used to Instagram and co, that they won't use it.

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