What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author’s response to most concerns regarding open source?

  • piefood@feddit.onlineEnglish
    122·
    2 days ago

    “…from email to LLMs, that nobody self-hosts”

    As someone that self-hosts those things, both professionally and personally, I’m gonna have to disagree. I wish more did, but there are plenty of self-hosters out there, they just don’t get headlines.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
      131·
      2 days ago

      I self host those, too.

      I am nobody in the scale of this conversation.

      I think there’s a business opportunity in simplifying self hosting into a commodity (have your people call my people, we’ll talk), but nobody is taking advantage of it other than, say, Synology, and they are still way too complicated and mostly only concerned with selling you hard drives.

      Apple and Google aren’t going to invent the iNAS or the Servoor until they can find a path to datamining and revenue in those that beats hosting things themselves, and that time is probably never. So while everybody uses Gmail and Facetime and ChatGPT nobody selfhosts.