As a Yunohost dev, I’m always amazed to see people recommending our humble tool in articles like that ^w^
Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services.
Submitted 3 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosting@slrpnk.net
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/buck-the-billionaires.html
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 days ago
This is drivel of the highest order.
The solution proposed by the author is to host your own fediverse instance on a … wait for it … corporate VPS.
There’s no discussion about terms and conditions that apply to hosted content, no discussion about legal liability, no discussion about credit card company censorship and what happens if you host something objectionable.
The author proudly proclaims that they’ve been booted off multiple platforms.
Here’s a thought:
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” - Elmore Leonard
drspod@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I don’t think it helps to gate-keep self-hosting as being only for local hardware. It’s also about managing your own software stack so you’re not reliant on Big Tech to provide services to you.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 days ago
I have no problem with the idea of self-hosting, there’s a time and place for it.
What I have an issue with is proclaiming the idea of getting away from “Big Tech” under the banner of “Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services.” and jumping into a corporate VPS without any self awareness around the reality of that, let alone a hint, nevermind a deeper discussion, around the far reaching implications, such as legality, payments, administration, outages, getting hacked and myriad other “would have been good to know before I jumped”-scenarios.
Is paying for a VPS part of self-hosting, sure, for some, but is it “Buck the Billionaires” … hardly.
Is the article good for promoting self-hosting … I would argue … not.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 days ago
I’ve stumbled upon that claim as well and looked into it. They appeared to be shadowbanned on reddit and other corporate sites for posting their own rather uncommercial articles.
I’m fine with using VPSes as the starting point. Admining your own services rather than using Facebook etc is the big step. Moving from vps to local hardware is easy in comparison.