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221 points finnlab | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 10:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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TrayKnots ◴[01 Apr 25 11:31 UTC] No.43545501[source]▶

I am actually worried about the self-hosting pandemic. We self-hosters will stop flying under the radar. Wonder how long it will take until our matrix instances require to be backdoored, our immich are scanning our pictures with AI.

On an unrelated note, an article of how to rent a VPS in China would be interesting :)

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anticrymactic ◴[01 Apr 25 11:43 UTC] No.43545582[source]▶

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Isn't that the beauty of self hosting? How could anything be enforced on user-controlled servers? Practically everything self-hosted is open source and how would enforcing anything would even work?

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1. madeofpalk ◴[01 Apr 25 11:44 UTC] No.43545593{3}[source]▶

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The problem lies with people who are technical enough to self-host, but might not be confident enough to fork/make changes. Maybe you could switch services, but there's still just enough friction/soft-lock in to actually migrate.

You are right though, it gives significantly more control to users. It's just realising 100% of the benefits that might be trickier.

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