Is it just up-front cost? I understand that for larger instances because they’d have to setup heftier systems, but even micro-instances seem to rent cloud compute when they could probably get by with port-forwarding to an old laptop.

Edit: I understand that self-hosting is a skill that takes years to learn, and I’m aware that the vast majority of people on Earth choose to spend their time and energy investing into completely different topics. However, Lemmy tends to attract the techy type, so I suppose I just assumed the ratio of self-hosters-to-not would be higher. I’m not saying it’s trivial, just that I presume more Lemmings know how to do it than, say, Redditors (taking total users into account ofc)

  • hedders@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    Most people don’t know how to self-host. Most people don’t know what self-hosting is. Most people don’t know what hosting is.

    This post is a prime example of a weird logical fallacy that seems to permeate the tech world in particular, and which goes something like this:

    1. For me, this task is trivial.
    2. That is because I have spent a lifetime developing the knowledge, skills and experience to make that task trivial.
    3. I lack the self-awareness and intellectual honesty to understand that.
    4. Therefore, I assume that anyone for whom this task is not trivial is simply lazy, and has only themselves to blame for their failure to perform this task.
    5. Therefore, I am very superior and very smart.