Mastodawn

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:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/

#SelfHosting #FOSS #blog

'Self-host it' is not the answer

I'm going out on a limb a bit here.

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@neil in a better timeline, i'd like the idea of neighborhood/community hosting. like, the local library doing it, with help of tech savvy volunteers. that would be wholesome

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Eugene

Feb 24

@NocturnalNessa @neil We, in Russia had such thing before (and looks like will have in the future

), when the ISP prices were high and unaffordable for usual people, but there were a lot of coaxial cables and 10BASE2 (IIRC) network equipment on the market for a reasonable price. So, people just connected apartments and buildings with these cables and had a local network in the block (or between some blocks) for filesharing, gaming in local network, etc… Something like this: https://medium.com/@pv.safronov/moscow-state-university-network-built-by-students-211539855cf9

Moscow state university network built by students

A long time ago, the Internet connection wasn’t a thing you would expect to be available in every place you find yourself by default…

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