I would even risk saying that what Google has been saying is damaging the trust in the industry, especially online services (if there ever was one).
I reflected on my gut aversion to stadia, and realized I had the same to most walled-garden online services. To be fair, Google is far from the only one shutting services down (and users out of it).
My solution is to use open source software, with a preference for federated or distributed solutions.
Discord/Skype/MSN/Hangouts/etc -> Matrix/Mumble
Twitter -> Mastodon
YouTube -> PeerTube
Etc. Those are the most recent ones I used. I still have some work to do before hosting a collabora online instance to offer to my family as an alternative to Google docs.
I reflected on my gut aversion to stadia, and realized I had the same to most walled-garden online services. To be fair, Google is far from the only one shutting services down (and users out of it).
My solution is to use open source software, with a preference for federated or distributed solutions.
Discord/Skype/MSN/Hangouts/etc -> Matrix/Mumble
Twitter -> Mastodon
YouTube -> PeerTube
Etc. Those are the most recent ones I used. I still have some work to do before hosting a collabora online instance to offer to my family as an alternative to Google docs.