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Future? Self hosting was common place in the 90’s.
Common? For organizations yes (much more so than today), but most users only had dialup at home even in the late 90s
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I admire your enthusiasm, but most users don’t want to think about or manage these things. Convenience and consistency of experience is the reason for giant corporations to own these services, and unless there is a compelling shift in consumer preferences, that seems unlikely to change.
It doesn't need to be that difficult. For example, you do not need a CS degree to own a TV, or a smart-fridge, it just works.
An intro to your parts suppliers and negotiating mates rates would also help.
Looks like this is similar to other self hosting projects like FreedomBone and NextCloud. It's great to see more tools to take back control over our data.
Similarly Cloudron.io and Sandstorm.io are very impressive and easy to use projects.
In return it places some restrictions on how developers build apps, which unfortunately means that it can't take advantage of all of the existing open source apps out there without extra work. But hopefully as people start to prioritize having control over their data, the app ecosystem will pick up steam.
Could there or is there also be a self-hosted version of a facebook clone? For exemple, you'd configure others server and they would all talk to each other, giving access to someones shared album, wall and profile.
I think it would be easy to get one person in a family to pay for hosting while another person keeps an eye on updates and backups. Same with groups of friends, even if most are broke / not willing to pay, if just one would pay it would be trivial to host a few hundred friends on one install and a few hundred family members on another.
Buddypress is mature enough with enough plugins to do most of what fbook and similar offer all for free. Only thing I don't really know is what kind of mobile notifications options are out there and people would expect or need, as I don't use fbk the same way others do.
But groups, pics, vids, messaging, profiles, privacy settings, these things are fairly easy with BP really.
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You mean as opposed to your container/virtualization having one line of code that is "fd"?
The point of my statement is you have tens upon thousands of lines of code, systems are complex. You can’t put all your eggs in a basket given the probability that something is fd. Downvoting my statement is fine as long as it’s noobs learning from this script and not someone who is running critical infrastructure. :)
But you'd be doing that no matter what unless you're running each daemon on a different physical machine. That basket's just called "Xen" now instead of "OpenBSD". Worse, if the hypervisor has a bug that can be triggered from unprivileged guest code (i.e. as a non-root user in the guest OS), then any layers added in the guest are moot.