2026-09-06 12:36 UTC
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@16af93@wetdry.world 2026-09-27 14:16
@annasdtc@sciences.social personally self-hosting vs big services is similar to gardening and farming as in: gardening is a great hobby and allows one to learn a lot about plants and soil (and can be a nice addition to gain personal independence!), but one would be mistaken to assume everybeing wants/can get into gardening (and even more mistaken to decry anybeing not willing to switch to gardening as bad!)
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@FuturisticRobert@infosec.exchange 2026-09-28 14:01
@annasdtc@sciences.social self-hosting enthusiast here. I've been toying around with the idea of a community (as in town, city, neighborhood) hosting co-op where the infrastructure and software is run by volunteers. I think it's possible, but a concern about equity-disparity between communities as well as legal/regulation seems to be the toughest problem to overcome. I bring this up because I'm sure a lot of self-hosters out there have a similar idea to mine. We do self hosting out of enthusiasm and because we have the ability, but we are looking for opportunities to steer our enthusiasm towards the benefit of the community around us. We're at the early stages of this, but in a way, this is the Internet seeing the big corporations as damage and routing around them, slowly.
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@ered@mathstodon.xyz 2026-09-27 02:33
@annasdtc@sciences.social For me, the way forward is not for everyone to self-host his email, etc. It's that the typical provider of these services should no more be large companies, but instead cooperatives whose workers or executive groups comes from circles you share values with. Something like maybe having your email hosted by a sysadmins co-op that provides hosting services only to residents of a city. Same applies to open source software: it gets forked all the time, so you keep using the fork maintained by the university/coop/whatever you trust. EDIT: fixed typos & languague.