I'm a hybrid user. I've been hosting as much as I can for nearly 20 years. It's definitely a lot of work and a pain at times. I use cloud services for a lot though. It's just easier and I don't have the same amount of resources or reliability that these companies have.

Well, if *you* say so… that’s good enough for me.

Was bitclout worth it?

I am a happy midwit. Just lxd all the things and automate updates. Granted, I don't host any public services.

I think the take home is that if an idiot can't self host then our software is still crap.

Our assumption is that no software is secure or bug-free, and that configuration is complex. But in the space of binary blobs, there exists software that is secure and bug-free for any given hardware architecture. We just need better algorithms to find it.

I'm pretty sure that "self host and manage everything" is not the mid-wit middle-majority position.