Post by @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

2026-07-31 23:10 UTC

@barbra@social.vivaldi.net @dalias@hachyderm.io @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I understand, and I appreciate the selfhosting sentiment, but the point I'm trying to make is that 'thinking small' doesn't make public services smaller. the 80s BBS is not a realistic representation of what needs or amount of people are out there today. If you want to move something like Youtube onto decentralized private hosting, even if everyone caters to their own audience, you'd need far more than a local symmetric gbit upload. I think we need both. A balance

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@barbra@social.vivaldi.net 2026-08-01 00:23

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz @dalias@hachyderm.io @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange If everyone who has gigabit connections just hosted their own videos for friends and family, and blocked anyone else, there'd be no problem. No need for funding (you're already paying for the internet connection, even a cheap spare $100 4TB card disk from 2020 would do the job). And since it would be local friends and family, you can agree on hours of access instead of 24/7/365. It's not like you're going to be serving up commercial 2-hour movies. Or take my X-Plane example. I'll be generating 10s of terabytes of ortho landscapes. No reason I can't share them with a few friends with the same interests who don't have the storage. Think small, think local.

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