#dat — Public Fediverse posts

The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin

“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/

The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin

“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/