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Indeed. I also depend on my power company, the entire global supply chain to provide me with computers to purchase, copper mines for the networking cables I use, oil fields all over the globe for the plastic, etc etc etc.
Something, something, if you want to make an apple pie from scratch you first have to invent the universe.
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So never bother with anything, am I right? Anything could be bad. Why eat the burger instead of the cyanide pill when there could be cyanide in the burger?
and almost every paid service too. Paid or unpaid is not a useful characteristic for determining if something will sell my data.
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Ok, well here is an example of how easy it would be to set up your own torum for instance. 3 or 4 commands and it's up. https://nonogra.ph/running-a-website-inside-a-website-07-15-... I don't feel the need or want to share my services with the world to demonstrate that.
Why did you still not post an onion link? It's as if you feel people don't like onion links. Which is true, and it's why people don't post onion links.
I simply do not want to announce my address here, it's ancillary to the discussion...you shed a layer of security by deciding to make your address public, non of which would benefit the whole point of any of the services I linked.
Circling back to the main discussion of indie web, tor is a great alternative if your circle of visitors is of reasonable size and you want a place outside of the commercialized internet. It's available to anyone.
Paying the penny will certainly give you robustness and reliability...but honestly that's part of the fun of indie web.
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Why did you still not post an onion link? It's as if you feel people don't like onion links. Which is true, and it's why people don't post onion links.
Does it not demonstrate the trivialness of it which was the case I'm making? I simply do not want to announce my address here, it's ancillary to the discussion...you shed a layer of security by deciding to make your address public, non of which would benefit the whole point of any of the services I linked. Circling back to the main discussion of indie web, tor is a great alternative if your circle of visitors is of r…
Holy, I love this simplicity
Nearlyfreespeech is a great service though not a 100% independent as your still relying on them. I think the closest you can get to 100% independent without running your own internet infrastructure is either port forwarding from your home (if allowed) or hosting a website through TOR which isn't too hard. You just have to download the browser and edit a config file (torrc) with the port you want on the network. Not i…
i host myself with 2 fixed IPs from telekom germany business, its not as expensive as one might expect, under 90€ for a fiber and vdsl line, so next to hosting your own auth ns servers and mail you get failover at home which is nice.
This is a common pattern for ex-national carriers in many countries btw - they believe they should be paid by both sides for all traffic that traverses their network, not just by one side, because they feel like they are God of the Internet in that country.
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When you pay for something, you stop being the product and become the customer instead. That's a big deal .
I've never understood this mentality. Why can't they still sell your data after you pay them? Porque no los dos?
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I encountered juniors straight out of school who don’t know what tar is, or rsync, or what a symlink is. It’s all learnable and everyone starts somewhere. But you’d think natural curiosity would kick in and they’d have picked up some of this on their own by the time they have a job.
For what it’s worth, I recently retired from a 30 year career as a developer and while I’m aware of all three of those things, I’ve never used any of them in or out of work. And I’ve hosted my own web server these last 20 years.
> run 100% independently > For just $0.01/day, you can run a static website at NearlyFreeSpeech.net I respect the spotlight on hosting your own websites, but it's not much different from the usual Vercel/Netlify/GitHub/Cloudflare static hosting. What if I want a database, feedback form, social media previews, good SEO? Article says nothing about it. Perhaps that's what makes a website "indie"?