Turns out, asklemmy just banned that account for being a bot.

Posting this much isn’t normal. Looks very fishy to me.

Like a cab, but it’s your car and you take care of everything.

If you need a car only once a year when going to the airport, a cab will be cheaper. If you need to go somewhere at least once a week, driving your own car will be cheaper. Likewise, if you need only a little bit of cloud storage for your photos, free iCloud or Google Drive might be fine. If you need a whole lot of storage, self-hosting becomes cheaper.

When you take a cab, do you need to worry about maintenance, gasoline, insurance, or other things? No. The same goes for cloud storage. When you throw your photos on Google Drive, you don’t need to worry about electricity bills, security updates, or hardware maintenance.

When you drive your own car, you need to be a responsible driver and a car owner. Maintenance is your responsibility. Likewise, self-hosting means you need to be a responsible server admin.

I really like the idea of having my own server, where I could have a bunch of cool stuff like email, VPN, Nextcloud, and so much more. The primary reason why I don’t have a server like that, is because I can’t trust myself to follow the best practices. For a while now, I’ve been thinking that I should hire a proper professional to take care of all that.

You can mitigate that issue to some extent by making the videos short. As long as the user count remains relatively small, the storage and bandwidth costs aren’t going to spiral out of control. Eventually you’ll have so many millions of active users that you’ll also need to figure out a way to get a steady source of revenue. I wonder how Loops will tackle that issues. Some mastodon instances already have a small yearly fee, so I guess video instances could do that as well.

This sounds pretty cool. Are there other types of restrictions you can have?

But it can always get worse. When they run out of money, some of the stuff that used to be free will begin to cost you something.

After all, sharing is caring.

It’s a reasonable compromise for many people, but it really depends on what you want.

Some people want to install Ubuntu and start using it instead of struggling with nvidia driver issues all day. Old ThinkPads are pretty good for most people.

Some people are willing to pay twice the price, and demand more privacy in return. There are a few companies offering laptops like that, but many of them are on the opposite side of the planet, so I hope you don’t mind paying shipping fees and bonus taxes. Also, it comes with a US layout keyboard, so let’s hope you didn’t grow up anywhere else in the world. Looking for brackets and equal signs will make you go crazy. Regardless, this category is really good for people with very strict privacy requirements.

Or a thinkpad.