I self-host a lot of stuff.
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
I can agree on this, self-hosting is a different kind of rabbit hole.. requires near constant upkeep, and you spend most of that time looking at logs, analyzing, optimizing and improving what you already have..
You follow security checks and best practices to secure your self-hosted infra..
It's not for the faint of heart, can get daunting at times, but the result is satisfaction and knowing you took that first step forward from straying away from bigTech bros.. you feel free somehow..
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil so I don’t self host, but that doesn’t absolve me of choices in what/where tech I buy, and I’ll tell people why I’ve made those choices - somebody has to pay (including volunteer/hobby time) somewhere. Is it £3/month to FB (current UK ‘don’t consent’ price) or the same to this mastodon instance? DropBox/OneDrive/Google, or hetzner for Nextcloud (and actually this one worked out cheaper for us)… Gmail or Runbox… GitHub pages or mythic beasts… the value is worth it.
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil Stepping out on a limb myself here. Here’s my response on why I think self-hosting *IS* an answer. But to understand this we need to, A. First understand the question being asked, and B. Not be overly literal or non-inclusive in terms of how we define “self-hosting”
'Self-host it' is an answer. Let me explain...
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Key concept: We don’t have a great vocabulary for describing the middle ground between pure “I own the hardware” self-hosting to “I use big tech platform A”. Let’s agree there’s self-hosting spectrum.
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil "Self-hosting requires a heck of a lot of privilege."
This can be true, but it's easier (and probably cheaper) than ever before.
And I'm doing it mostly to just say no to corporations getting my data.
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@neil "Self-hosting requires a heck of a lot of privilege."
This can be true, but it's easier (and probably cheaper) than ever before.
And I'm doing it mostly to just say no to corporations getting my data.
@rasterweb Great!
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil It's the online version of "just fork it", totally belies the amount of work that implies and some folk don't have that dog in them.
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil couldn't agree more. Self-hosting is a hobby, and not something that most people will want to do, or should have to.
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil yeah and it even do not fix the core issue, of even if you self host, it will not allow grandma to join and such condemn it to never be mainstream.
linux user made this error back and the day and now that it's easy to use "strangely" the usage skyrocket.
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@henryk Interesting analogy!
@neil @henryk the chicken analogy is great, when it becomes apparent that a system of distribution is needed to sell or provide eggs to others. And also trust and confidence on the part of the egg recipients outside one's household - that too is no trivial thing. There's psychology and relationality there, which goes beyond the sheer technical aspects of raising the chickens.
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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.
I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.
I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.
I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:
@neil self hosted EU soverign torment nexus
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