It’s not a secret that I am quite a fan of the #Fediverse and getting more independent of a few Big Tech Companies and getting control back.
In case you aren’t too familiar with the Fediverse, I recommend a little detour to Elena Rossini’s article “Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media” including her 4min video.
In order to regain some control, I started moving some services to my home network: Utilising my NAS for storage, local photo-serving, video and audio streaming and also making it available to our mobiles via VPN.
BUT – this only works as I am rather technology affine and like to fiddle with the admin stuff. This clearly won’t be the solution for the majority of people. — At least as long as the according services aren’t as easily deployable as a 1-click WordPress blog on any Webhoster without additional admin burden.
The article: “The Future is NOT Self-Hosted” outlines it quite well. Especially when he’s coming to the chapter “The future is community-hosted“. I am playing with the thought of getting a managed NextCloud — but on the other side: I just don’t need it just for me and my wife — especially in parallel to my local NAS. That would simply be overkill. But opening it to friends as well might be a good thing: I could do the tech/admin (whatever remains at a managed instance) and they can use it without dealing with admin stuff. With the downside of course, that they have to trust me then as Admin instead of some BigTech player …
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