What has been on my mind today: the high costs of digital sovereignty and privacy.
I quit #Substack and pay 30€ a month for a Creator plan on #Ghost (approx. 360 Euros a year).
I quit Dropbox in favor of #Proton Unlimited (drive but also mail, calendar. VPN). 119 Euros/year.
I nuked my Google Analytics accounts in favor of #Plausible (90 Euros/year).
I'm HAPPY to pay for these services & yet I'm highly aware of my privilege.
#BigTech won't fade in popularity anytime soon bc it's free 😩
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Tommi 🤯
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •You could self-host all of this just as easily using @yunohost and a VPS for 15 €/month MAX, or, even better, just with a RaspberryPi plugged in your modem.
Email is the only thing that is a nightmare self-hosted, to be fair.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Tommi 🤯 • •@Tommi 🤯 @YunoHost @Elena Rossini ⁂ as a self-hoster, that requires skills / knowledge, even with things like yunohost, and time¹, and having either is just another form of privilege
I'm thankful to have those, and love self-hosting the services I do self-host (or rather community-host: I share the hosting tasks with some friends, and provide services for family members who would never be able to self-host on their own, but having access to those friends is yet another form of privilege)
¹ or more time, to be able to gain those skills and knowledge
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Tommi 🤯
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Indeed, @valhalla, but to be honest I believe that YunoHost is very stable now, and hosting common apps requires very, very little time, almost comparable to setting up any other hosted service.
@_elena @yunohost