• feistel@sns.feistel.party
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    1 year ago

    Looking at old defunct forums and blogs on the Wayback Machine, spam and security problems are frequently-cited reasons for shutting down or going read-only.

    Over time, the internet has gotten more hostile.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzB
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    1 year ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer

    [Thread #17 for this sub, first seen 10th Aug 2023, 17:55] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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    1 year ago

    Us, selfhosters - sure.

    Average person who value convenience over privacy/cost - no. They’ll continue to pay and be in prisoned by the cloud.

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      Some might say they’re freeing themselves in a way though. Self hosting requires dedicating time you could spend doing other things especially when things break. People pay for convenience and saving time. When we simplify self hosting and updating to a point people can just download apps and press go then it will make sense for the average person