Let’s imagine we live in a world the American government is not the American government so you can trust what American companies say when they talk about protecting your privacy and so on…

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    6 hours ago

    Thx. It is an idea I considered a while ago, like selfhosting as much things as I can, but looking at it and reading the various docs/help I realized it was way above my skills, at least that I wouldn’t feel confident I’m doing it right/safely. For context, I’m well into 50s and even though I run Linux i’m not that much of a geek (I’m already very happy I can blog using Markdown + a static website generator ;)

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      17 minutes ago

      For context, I’m well into 50s

      That’s cute…I just turned 71 recently. LOL Just givin’ ya the piss bro. But I understand your conundrum. I’ve had a computer in front of me since about the mid 70s and the Altair, and it’s not that I have some impressive repository of intellect, I’ve just screwed up enough along to way to learn a thing or two. Do, screw it up, nope that’s not it. #@#$ Do it again, hey that works, write that shit down!

      Getting into self hosting did drive home the enormity of traffic on the tubes. You are kind of aware of the amount of traffic, but not really first hand until you open your first port and watch as a vast horde of bots pull a train on your little server relentlessly. They are like piranha and can smell an open port 22 from half way around the world.

      There is a competent self hosting chan here: https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted. Good guys there ready to help. Like I said, I possess no great wealth of intelligence, but if you ever want somebody to bounce a few ideas off of, I’m always down to help in any way.