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Cloud is not going anywhere anytime soon. Everyone screaming for self hosting is rarely people who actually run large scale infrastructure.

Cloud infrastructure is a force multiplier for any individual, team or business. Of course it has privacy, 3rd party risk and tons of other implications but waving of cloud like some self hosted devices solve everything is beyond naive.

What we need is to make cloud better, not trying to convince people that they need to become part time sysadmins herding their pet raspis at home.

The amount of cloud infrastructure and rented servers I have deployed would be insanely capex prohibitive. Also it kills half of the startups before they even start if the first thing you do is you need to buy 50k worth of hardware.

Confidential computing, ecash and removing the need for ipv4 space addressing can improve hosted compute by orders of magnitude while still providing much of the same services. The solution is forward, not backwards.
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Greg Simon 1y ago

I completely agree with you from a business standpoint. But I think the reasoning that nostr:npub1l6scds4yv7xmcsmhqnhdy9sggm520q09lvts2m5mkvecgr2mmmeqsuj5rc has is also valid from a consumer's perspective. It's very Bitcoin-esque to begin questioning the centralization of all digital aspects of your life, not just money. However, from running an EC2 server myself on AWS, the cost effectiveness, reliability and performance is unmatched. That is not to say that self hosting as an individual for your own private files has no substance. But rather we must be clear on what makes sense and what doesn't for cloud computing.

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Matt 1y ago

I thought I made it pretty clear that I was talking about my own individual perspective and concerns about average people doing this today.

It turns out that not every human on the planet values the same things. Some of us are and will be willing to make certain tradeoffs. Hardware also gets cheaper over time, so what is too expensive today won't be in the future. What is technically hard today won't necessarily be in the future (which is why I commented on this becoming easier for average people in the future).