Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The users who are being talked about here probably don’t get that exposing your machine to the Internet carries risk. That’s the point.

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  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is literally a thread somewhere on my Lemmy I need to try and find just recently that shows this perfectly. Someone made a thread asking how they can self host their images for backup from their phone and naturally everyone pointed them to immich. And they immediately started complaining and bitching that they could not access it from outside their local network. Instead of asking how to fix that they were like what the hell is the point if I have to be on the same Wi-Fi this is stupid. And they basically did not want to engage with the people being like hey you need to either make a reverse proxy or open a port on your router. They should not be self hosting

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep, that sounds like the poster child for this phenomenon.

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• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Self-hosting is trivial and everyone can do it.

  So is open heart surgery. Unless you want it to end successfully.

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  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t equate installing proxmox on an old pc to open heart surgery. It’s pretty basic stuff and you can follow guides on how to install services in a container or vm. People are interested in things like pihole, home assistant, arr stacks, nas, and better control over their network. It’s definitely not rocket surgery.

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