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1. Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: (njoseph@social.masto.host)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 08:36:16 EDT Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:

   All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

   We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

   This is one of the worst deals in history.

   #privacy #selfhosting

   1. solariiknight(ஆனந்த்) (solariiknight@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Jul-2018 06:12:23 EDT solariiknight(ஆனந்த்)

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      $5 and lots of pain in maintaining services I think. I've had to badger my sysadmin if my gnusocial, xmpp and email don't work.
      1. arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 05:00:18 EDT arunisaac

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         I certainly agree that the present situation with self hosting is painful. But, I am optimistic that things will get better in time. In particular, I'd be happy to see the day when all (or at least most) applications are P2P and do not require us to maintain servers with their associated single points of failure.