apparently telling people to self host is as insulting as telling them to learn to code
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Self hosting media servers behind NATs is not easy, almost impossible..
It was mostly tongue-in-cheek. For small shops itās not practical, but there definitely is a problem in that large shops with 1k+ employees donāt bother self-hosting anymore. Makes the internet so brittleā¦
as long as we make our solutions simple to run and maintain.
i like the "lightning app" idea... where as a business all you really need is to run a lightning and bitcoin node, then you access the node over lightning to provide services (like the notedeck_clndash app or http://lnlink.org/ )
this is way easier than setting up and maintaining web and email servers.
I donāt think this is a āweb and emailā problem. Itās a āwe can cut costs by leaning on cloudflare/AWSās competence so we donāt need any competence in houseā problem. If you have 100+ employees, you should be self-hosting much of your infra (or multi-cloudāing it if you really donāt care about data security) and have redundant CDNs you can switch between if cloudflare is down.
my point was we don't actually need the web for many use cases. could all just be RPC calls over lightning for business stuff. once we can get rid of the server requirement, we can start building nostr and lightning client apps that connect to self hosted nodes in a way that wouldn't require you to run a VPS for everything.
maybe this is just a fantasy land dream of mine
Yea, getting mobile off of servers and onto the client is a whole other ball of yarn. Sadly one even harder than self-hosting, but maybe more important.
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