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Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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221 points finnlab | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 10:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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]▶
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. diggan ◴[01 Apr 25 12:41 UTC] No.43546084[source]▶
> How could anything be enforced on user-controlled servers?

New laws comes to mind. If a government decides to try to outlaw encryption again, cloud/hosting companies located there wouldn't have a choice but to comply, or give up on the business. The laws could also be made in such way that individuals are responsible for avoiding it, even self-hosters, and if people are using it anyways, be legally held responsible for the potential harms of it.