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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

even now you can still host your own website / services at home without any specialized gear

Yes, as I said, that's the only thing I've done myself—in particular, at times I've run it off of my main desktop, and at other times on a Raspberry Pi with an external hard drive attached—but that's specifically not what I was asking about because the previous comment was specifically talking about non-developers who might have that basic HTML understanding and just want a server where they can throw up an HTML file and have it served up. A goal that's more technically involved than a wordpress.com site, but less involved than self-hosting a LAMP stack and running the Let's Encrypt certbot.

(Plus, of course, the growing prevalence of cgNAT making self-hosting impossible for many people necessitates the use of a hosting company or user-friendly web service.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Self-hosting & other content producing has been pushed against for ages. Look at the cost to get symmetric internet speeds in many places like it is somehow more expensive to upload the bits. I am pretty sure this is a part of a conspiracy to make sure everyone is a consumer for more $$$ & not expressing their own ideas except on platforms they don’t control.