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More reason to promote for self-host, and decentralised systems like smtp, matrix.org, ActivityPub. The idea of having all the data and server concentrated in a
by deepstack 5y ago
More reason to promote for self-host, and decentralised systems like smtp, matrix.org, ActivityPub. The idea of having all the data and server concentrated in a few player such as google, amazon, ccp is not reliable for the digital operation of the planet.
- kertoip_1 5y agoThe question is: should we trust small, underfunded, hobbyist servers more than large corporations that have a money-driven reason to maintain high quality of services?
- riffic 5y agofor the average end user: heck no. for those with budgets to hire server administrators (or pay for third-party managed services)? yes. second category includes almost anyone with a large following like institutional users. hell the incumbent social media service operators can white-label their existing software and sell this as a service.
- fragmede 5y agoYes. Like some sort of workspace? Google could make one. I wonder what they'd call it?
- scrollaway 5y agoI’m sure Google wonders the same thing, given that it’s had like five different names over the years.
- deepstack 5y agoNot really many open source project such as nextcloud, mattermost are easy to host your self, or the hosting provider provide it as an app.
- altgoogler 5y agoDisclaimer: am Googler. Self-hosting is a good option, especially when mixed with multi-cloud offerings. The big rub is that it's really hard to approach the same level of availability the cloud offerings already give you. Depending on work-load, self-hosting is typically more expensive. This is why the SRE book talks about availability budget. You can't have 100% uptime, so how much do you want to pay to get close to it?