All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.
We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?
This is one of the worst deals in history.
@njoseph What about counting the hours everybody would have to spend learning to be their own sysadmins and actually making those $5 VPSes do something useful without becoming part of a botnet?
Self hosting is not a solution for humanity unless you can invent protocols and software that self-hosts without their knowledge. But now you have a problem with backups and data loss... so they'll never trust your platform again if anything is ever lost and use centralized instead
Maybe you've seen the phrase "Nintendo Hard" used to describe the difficulty of classic NES games, but I think we need to come up with a new term: #NintendoEasy.
Until we have offer data appliances that prove web, email, IM, network routing and storage, and media streaming that are as affordable and as easy to set up as the Nintendo Entertainment System was back in the 80s, #selfhosting just isn't realistic for the average person.
@starbreaker @feld @njoseph I have a sudden urge for the software to be on cartridges
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@lupine @feld @njoseph Cartridges are fine. Or SD cards.
But if we're gonna build this shit on Unix, we should aim to build a better wifi router. :)