We're installing apps to our phones, why aren't we deploying apps to 'our servers'? Why don't we do that while we install an app to our phones? What's missing, a platform spec?
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I have had a VPS for 15 years, run my own domains, email, blogs, websites, surveys, galleries, etc. Ran NextCloud for a while. Manage my own small business infrastructure. Stuff like that. But I can do all that without having to login thru a terminal, run a bunch of apt commands, deal with dependencies, etc.
I would install ditto this afternoon, but I'm not going to do this: https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/install
It's way outside my comfort zone.
(Note to well-meaning but misguided commenters: Kindly refrain from "bro, it's not that hard" comments. I don't care. If you believe "it's not that hard," you're part of the problem.)
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