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Written by ToroidalCore on 2025-02-02 at 07:00

Now might not be a bad time to brush up on self-hosting, if you're so-inclined. Encryption as well. Like, if any of it sounds interesting, read up on it maybe experiment. Know your limits, what you want to get into, but push your comfort zone a little.

Not everyone has to self-host everything. But some people can, and should. Some can self-host one thing, others something else.

Here's the thing: it's not just about having a service that you control to a greater degree. It's about learning it, and understanding what it takes to do it, and how to keep doing it when it breaks. Either on its own, or because someone else wants it to.

If you get it going, not only do you have the thing you self-hosted, you have the knowledge. They can try to erase it, but it has a tendency to spread, if people want it to.

Replace 'self-host' with some other skill too. Learning is resistance. Dumb little things like Linux-related posts on FB being censored may not seem like much in isolation, but look at that in the context of what the entities we call Big Tech are doing right now.

I don't really know what's going to happen. It's too early to tell, but it's true what they say that knowledge is power.

Just some thoughts.

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