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Thibault Martin betrachtet self-hosting als necessary burden:

As self-hosters we are not going to change the face of the world. The other 98% of the general public is going to use hegemonic services: self-hosting is a privilege for those who have the education, time and money to put into it. We’re only deploying solutions that work for us, individually. Hosting services for our relatives puts them at risk of losing their data if something happened to us.

My recommendation to most people putting services online would be: either do it for yourself only, or do it as a team with proper structure and processes. What sounds like an initiative to emancipate people could actually alienate them to you, and that is a huge responsibility.

I believe it’s important to be able to self-host, even if only to prove it’s possible to do without hegemonic services. But we need to figure out how to do decentralise services and data storage for individuals at scale.

Obwohl ich weiß, dass meine Services nur halbwegs stabil laufen und ein größerer Zwischenfall bei meinem Hoster ein ganz erhebliches Chaos auslösen würde – das Gefühl der partiellen Unabhängigkeit von hegemonic services ist ein kleines Damoklesschwert wert.