Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦

This person says "The future is not self-hosted", which I largely disagree with. But their proposed solution is A+.

Perhaps the middleground should be that the future is self-*hostable*? Not that you *must* self host, but that you always have that option open.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/203220/the-future-is-not-self-hosted

'The Future is Not Self-Hosted' - Slashdot

A software developer who built his own home server in response to Amazon's removal of Kindle book downloads now argues that self-hosting "is NOT the future we should be fighting for." Drew Lyton constructed a home server running open-source alternatives to Google Drive, Google Photos, Audible, Kindl...

Jul 31, 2025 at 10:30pmWeb
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@kboyd I have a friend who has a very large SAS and complains a lot about big datacenter services like AWS, GCP, and Azure. He criticizes the issue of "capitalism" and blah blah blah... But he also wants to make money with his product and hasn't found any alternative to self-host his service. So much irony. I'm more concerned about privacy, but I don't maintain any big services...