Run It Yourself

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Some people want to run their own servers (staltz.com)

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Obviously the author is right, but Moxie is also right. Let's me put it a different way.

I don't want to run my own server, but it is better than the alternatives.

It is also very different from a couple people running a mastodon instance for 1000s of people than each person running their own. I'm happy to run one thing. Either a server or a SaaS. But I don't want to run every single thing I use.

Maybe some day software will be so reliable that running every single thing will be reasonable. But currently that isn't the case. I would rather run my SaaS, maybe one or two servers, then pay others to run the rest.

Even better is making something serverless, or making the server zero-trust. This means that there is less risk to letting someone else run it. I just pay them to provision resources, do maintenance...