Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The authors approach to not owning anything digital was to attempt self hosting. But the authors reaction to the amount of work was that he shouldn’t own the “self-hosting”? He does not even realize that he’s back to not owning anything
elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
He proposes the cloud be owned by communities, so in a way by everyone. That’s not the same everything being owned by private companies.
baod_rate@programming.dev 1 day ago
In fact, that model (conceptually, though not technically) is how most fediverse software already work
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So is he insinuating that communities should have IT people who keep things running for everyone (like a digital librarian of sorts)?
Because that takes time, effort, and money. Like a lot more than one would spend or need for themselves/family/maybe a couple of friends.
Also, community-run self-hosting just seems like a bad idea from a privacy and legality standpoint. One pirate getting caught isn’t usually so bad (usually a warning or small fine). But once you start distributing, then you’re going from a kiddie pool of consequences into an ocean of consequences.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The point is that clouds aren’t inherently bad, and actually come with a lot of important upsides; they’ve become bad because capital owns and exploits everything in our society, poisoning what should be a good idea. The author is arguing that while there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with self-hosting, it’s not really a solution, just a patch around the problem. Rather than seeking a kind of digital homesteading where our lives are reduced to isolated islands of whatever we personally can scratch from the land, we should be seeking a digital collectivism where communities, not exploitative corporations, own the digital landscape. Sieze the means of file-sharing, in effect.
maxwellfire@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s so much to host that isn’t related to pirated media sharing though. I host like 5 services and only one could be related to that