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Beto DealmeidaThirty years of Internet have shown me that:
1. Self hosting is always worth the trouble.
2. Open source is always a better option in the long run.
sergio_101 has moved!@beto I concur. Every few years, I have to make a case to someone above me about not converting to a 100% Microsoft shop.
@beto oh! And now with kubernetes et al, life is much more stable.
Mike@beto preach
Incident Creator ❎@beto May I add: Save every file in an Open format ?
essjax@beto it took me a long time to learn this. So much unnecessary SAAS. I can bloody do it myself.
Mads B. Klinkby 🌻@beto
3. Protocols over products.
3. Protocols over products.
Saï
Simon Brooke@beto Self hosting was great when I could afford a leased line into the house. It's not really 'self hosting' when it's out in the cloud, and managing cloud servers is not as easy.
@simon_brooke I agree (though I think self-hosting on cloud is better than nothing).
I've used https://hoppy.network/ in the past to host services at home, you get a public IP for $8/month. There are cheaper solutions. But running servers is challenging — users need to manage upgrades, backups, security issues.
We need to build tools that make this easy for non-technical people.
@simon_brooke I'm working on a blogging platform/social media that tries to help with that:
1. Users run a binary in a computer connected to the internet (I'm planning to use https://redbean.dev/).
2. Friends find each other and exchange data via WebRTC (requires exchanging usernames via some other channel first).
3. Users discover people via their friends, growing their network by adding friends-of-friends.
4. User data is automatically backed up in their friend's instances.
Katy Swain@beto I do not understand why the IT industry doesn't work like the plumbing, or electrical, or whatever, industry. You have a server sitting in a cupboard, or in your attic, or wherever. When something goes wrong you can call any one of dozens of local businesses to fix it. It plugs into municipal infrastructure.
The IT state of the art is basically Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and AOL, but with advertising, surveillance, censorship, and your data held hostage on the mainframe (or "cloud").
ianto@beto true this to the absolute max.
Damiano Gerli@beto and "don't taze me bro" is the meme that keeps on giving
Chris
ApisNecros@beto /gen I love self hosting. So many times I've been told it's not worth the effort, or that I can't even do it (per ISP rules), and yet, here I am.
@ApisNecros I've used https://hoppy.network/ to bypass ISP rules, best $8/month subscription!
@beto Ooo, very neat! Thanks for sharing!
Niclas HedhmanEven though I just a few hours ago got locked out from my own mail server, because it thought my IP was trying to "break in", and not understanding that I am trying to write a mail client and was testing.
And I have long ago forgotten how this mail server works. But at least the ban was lifted after an hour...
House Panther 
@beto I'm slowly moving in that direction. The next move is email as I'd like to use Zimbra.