Electric GremlinFeb 18

I've been saying for awhile that moving to self-hosting stuff means losing some QoL because a lot of things we call QoL are the product of centralization, enclosure, and capital.

Well in some cases stability is the same. Self-hosting a voice chat or streaming server in California US is going to suck for people half way around the world and that is, in part, because there is a "fast lane" to the internet and it's provided by massive capital like AWS and GCP.

Massive cloud companies with a ton of PoPs and fiber has even smoothed over bad intercontinental and islandic hops in many cases and leaving those centralized, enclosed systems runs the risk of leaving them behind.

There's no good answer, everyone needs to make the best decisions they can for their own communities.

Show threadGay disaster Dragon

@trysdyn I've found some of the biggest pushback is when I told some folks the medium storage/no logs server side options.

Folks understandably want to search logs and content but there's a disconnect in the not realizing how much storage costs, and I don't think any of us could afford that.

Feb 18 at 6:08pmWeb
Show threadGay disaster DragonFeb 18

@trysdyn maybe it's more of treating the community less like a room you enter (booting up for the day) and they want it more like recorded history. There's a FOMO in conversations people might of missed. Which, I think only started once mega corps started having that?

I personally wouldn't miss that myself.