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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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Matt 1y ago

I said in the post that I was writing this from my individual perspective.

I said there will always be an application for cloud computing.

I don't see it as a multiplier for myself in every aspect, which is why I stated that this is my perspective. You don't get to decide this for everyone.

I never said that self hosting solves everything. In fact, I said the opposite.

Who are you to decide what is and isn't forward for everyone? I've found that going back to local solutions in some aspects has been better for me.

You really injected a lot into this that simply wasn't there. Just because I think many will return to local software/hardware in the future (especially since hardware gets cheaper), doesn't mean I'm saying cloud computing will go away.

You seem to think you're the defacto source for what is best for everyone. It's entirely possible that some people will value different things than you. It's already happening. And I clearly stated my concerns regarding the difficulty for average people to do this currently.

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