Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?
ieGod@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Being encouraged to learn about the basics isn’t gatekeeping, it’s just sound technical advice. Self hosting can be great, but when you shift critical services/infrastructure and something goes south you expose yourself to some serious harm (think self-hosting your password management), or perhaps leave yourself open and vulnerable to threats you don’t understand.
Having access to easier/friendlier tools is great, but using them without fundamental understanding is risky.
l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 4 hours ago
I think the gatekeeping part isn’t the warning or cautionary advice being given, It’s the failure to point, and give direction to, the relevant thing(s), the skill sets, the place to start in order to understand the complexities.
Like the hart-surgeon analogy given elsewhere in the comments; it’s not just the dire warning of ‘you can kill someone’ - it’s the humanity to say, well if you want to learn how to do this, you’re going to have to start by having an understanding of basic biology, organic chemistry, human anatomy, etc, and to learn about those things go here…
ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Expecting every post to come with a little handholding tutorial isn’t reasonable either. For the surgeon example it doesn’t take a surgeon to give the warning, but that same non-surgeon isn’t necessarily in a position to guide anyone either.