Can’t a corporation just enter the space whenever they want to? Can’t they start or even buy out larger instances? Even if Lemmy does take off, wouldn’t this inevitably happen anyway if the space gets popular enough?

  • jcg@halubilo.social
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    1 year ago

    Not that guy but I see the confusion here. What he really means is self host which could mean running something in your garage or could mean running something on a VPS as long as you’re doing it yourself. You can definitely self host email. You can even run it in your garage you just need to tunnel through a VPS or something with a non residential IP.

    • Joseph Grimaldi [Nikola Orsinov]@the.unknowing.dance
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      1 year ago

      Suree in the grand sheme of things getting a non-residential ip shouldn’t be too hard

      But i still think it’s one of those pieces of red tape that have killed a lot of diversity

      This is absolutely a reason to close your home server -i mean if you’re buying an VPS anyway that uses the same bandwidth it would use with the server set up there

      Why keep a server in your garage? And then you’re not truely independent anymore, because of a small policy somewhere

      I DO think garage hosting is an important part of an ecosystems freedom.

      I can garage host fedi, and i AM in this very moment. For web services it’s just DOS Protection that we need Men in the Middle for. Which is sad but, actually not an artificial requirement.

      • jcg@halubilo.social
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        1 year ago

        I do agree, but at this point most residential connections are probably behind CGNAT so wouldn’t even have a public IP associated with just their connection anymore. You can always buy a business line and have them connect it up to your home. I think that would also give you a non residential IP?

        • Joseph Grimaldi [Nikola Orsinov]@the.unknowing.dance
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          1 year ago

          I am hosting this server behind a dynamic ipb6 address, which a script send to the cloudflare api every time it changes

          As long as you have a DSLite ipv6 non-nat address, you can be on the web - with compromises xD

          My parents are still behind a dynamic ipv4, which is not behind a NAT