I’ll go first with an example below.

What are y’all opinions as to what to self-host (on a computer, instance, or local computer) vs what is better to pay for through subscription or purchase?

The goal is to increase

  • privacy from databrokers, ad brokers, corporate overlords, and from family and friends.
  • security from threats below targeted nation state attacks, below zero-day vulns.

Example:

Self-host your calendar, contacts, and tasks Subscribe to email via protonmail to avoid all the issues with self-hosting mail servers

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I self-host basically everything I can, aside from email. Self-host Calendar, contacts, streaming, budgeting, documents and storage, passwords, private chat, etc.

    Email I’d love to self-host, but consensus seems to be that it’s between moderately difficult to impossible to get outbound deliverability depending on quite a few factors, some of which are out of one’s control.

    As for reasons why I self-host, basically everything you’ve listed in your post. I want to be the owner of my data, not some corp making profit by mining it for ad revenue or selling it to data brokers. Also I love digging into the guts of standing up my own services and keeping them maintained, I’ve learned so much over the years from it.