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I think the biggest gap in the whole notion of FOSS is that self-hosting as a concept is not accessible to normal people.

I don't even know *why* this is hard.

Edit: A great illustration of why it's hard:
mastodon.transneptune.net/@owe

Owen (@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)

@mayintoronto@beige.party Assumptions: you know how to run a linux machine, install packages, troubleshoot issues, &c. You know how to punch traffic through your residential router to go to that device. You know how to use DNS or at least how to find a service to do DNS for you, or are comfortable with memorizing a periodically-changing numeric address. You are okay with the occasional flood of traffic from search engines and AI scrapers.

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