John Martinez on Nostr: I've been sucked into the rabbit hole of self hosting. I got a start9 because it ...
I've been sucked into the rabbit hole of self hosting.
I got a start9 because it pulled on my heart strings right when I was looking for a solution to store all my family pictures that were starting to build up.
After installing it and seeing everything that I can do with self hosting I've finally pulled the wool from over my eyes and realized that, in this digital age, I own very little of what I've paid for.
The big tech companies want you to spend money and own nothing. Everything lives in their "ecosystems".
The masses are lured by convenience and stay because of the difficulty of changing their ways.
The nature of data today is that it is ever growing.
I buy a book on Amazon, it lives in Amazon Kindle, on amazon's server. I paid for the right to look at the words on the pages but I don't own the book.
I buy a movie, its hosted by whichever company I just bought it from. I paid to watch the pictures on the screen but I don't own the movie. My own pictures and words and business intelligence, those start free until I have enough of a hoard of data that I'd PAY for someone to ensure it was secure.
The dystopia is here, its already happening and no one is paying attention.
It's crazy that it took me until just now to realize this.
I got a start9 because it pulled on my heart strings right when I was looking for a solution to store all my family pictures that were starting to build up.
After installing it and seeing everything that I can do with self hosting I've finally pulled the wool from over my eyes and realized that, in this digital age, I own very little of what I've paid for.
The big tech companies want you to spend money and own nothing. Everything lives in their "ecosystems".
The masses are lured by convenience and stay because of the difficulty of changing their ways.
The nature of data today is that it is ever growing.
I buy a book on Amazon, it lives in Amazon Kindle, on amazon's server. I paid for the right to look at the words on the pages but I don't own the book.
I buy a movie, its hosted by whichever company I just bought it from. I paid to watch the pictures on the screen but I don't own the movie. My own pictures and words and business intelligence, those start free until I have enough of a hoard of data that I'd PAY for someone to ensure it was secure.
The dystopia is here, its already happening and no one is paying attention.
It's crazy that it took me until just now to realize this.