Comment on The Verge Takes on Self-Hosting for the Masses
tal@lemmy.today 1 year agoIf you want self-hosting for everyone, then I suspect you’re gonna have something like a console – a self-contained box that requires virtually no configuration.
dandi8@kbin.social 1 year ago
So something like a Synology NAS, I guess.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And even that is not for the masses. It’s good, it’s for the medium savvy folks, but it will never be for my wife - or for my mother!
tal@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I suppose that that’s an “appliance-like computer” though I was thinking more of general-purpose hardware that takes software modules.
Like, think of how you install a game on a console. Maybe you set up your account at the beginning and plonk in a wireless password, but beyond that, there’s no further essential configuration for the thing to work. Same kind of idea. You get box, you install software module, no more configuration involved.
If more configuration is required, then it’s just not going to be something sufficiently accessible for everyone to use.
That’s probably not what the typical user on this community is looking for, but I think that that’s probably what would be required if one wants everyone in the public to be able to self-host.