Cyborganism

It’s much more than that. Amazon’s strength is also in its proximity warehouses and contacts with delivery companies.

Otherwise you just have a federated Ebay.

You wish. It’s not gonna happen with these douchebags in power.

They also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.

I ALREADY DO GOD DAMMIT! (Seriously I have pen pals. I write letters every year. I’m actually late and need to write them!)

That’s why I just upgraded my subscription to Proton. (YES I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE DRAMA WITH THEIR CEO!!! AT LEAST THEY’RE NOT SELLING AI SERVICES TO MILITARY CONTRACTORS, DOING MASS SURVEILLANCE OR SELLING MY FUCKING DATA!)

Is that tinfoil hat comfortable?

Use a VPN. Problem solved.

That okay.

If you want to host just for yourself that’s okay. Just be careful about cybersecurity. You don’t want that box to become an easy entry point for hackers.

Having self hosted before the age of the cloud, on my own personal PC, I highly recommend to have a seperate box on a DMZ part of your router and only open the required ports. And use a super stable distro like Debian stable. You don’t want the bleeding edge on there as there could be bugs and vulnerabilities that haven’t been patched yet.

If you need to access it remotely, use SSH and disable root login and only allow logging in using SSH keys. Disable password login. And update often and back-up often!

Finally, keep all eye on the issues of the GitHub pages for your fediverse app so you can be aware of any important updates and patched or vulnerabilities. Shut down your service if there’s an important vulnerability that’s not fixed yet.

Would you simply host for yourself or for others?

The issue I have with self-hosting is that the day something goes wrong, you lose your account along with all your posts. And if you host for others, they also lose all of theirs.

I know this isn’t the answer you were looking for. But I have the knowledge to self host and all. I have 17 years of experience as a Linux sysadmin, a software developer and now a DevOps specialist. And I honestly don’t want to bother because of the responsibility. However, there are organizations and non-profits who have the resources to host stable long-running instances. But they need money. So I donate to the instances I use instead.

But it you REALLY want to learn, start learning about Linux web servers, databases, networking, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes) and a good bit of cybersecurity. Hosting stuff on your laptop is a good start.

One thing we need to mention is funding.

While BlueSky may benefit from venture capital, free (as in beer) open source projects where user data is not commercially exploited for revenue do not have the same benefit. They rely a LOT on donations for running the infrastructure and for the hours and hard work that people are putting in.

They’re the worst to sweat in. It absorbs the sweat like a fucking towel and they get heavy. And then they radiate the smell of ass sweat.

I know because a guy at my gym used to wear a pair to do cardio before his weightlifting. He stank so fucking much and his pants were drooping from the wet sweat.

That is fucked.

I’m already starting to transition to full Linux on my devices with the arrival of Windows 11 and Windows 10 reaching end of life in October next year. I never thought I’d see the day of this happening.

Well you shouldn’t trust a public, decentralized, open source personally hosted service either.

I don’t really know who’s hosting the Lemmy or other fediverse services I use and what access they have to the data that we post on there.

Basically, you shouldn’t trust any online service with your data and your posts.