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== Why I'm Doing This == | == Why I'm Doing This == | ||
=== I spend way too much time on Reddit where no | === I spend way too much time on Reddit and online forums === | ||
Reddit is a website filled with best the best and worst of the internet. I've learned so much by joining subreddits and reading about people's experiences. However, there are so many times where I've spent way too much time writing posts just for it to get removed and downvoted for no reason. Also I hate how mods have so much power to the point where they can lock posts, remove posts for not following the rules, etc. And for so many of the top-voted posts like the ones you see on r/popular and r/all, they just seem so fake or reposts. I often wondered how redditors on r/askreddit get so many upvotes for posts/comments which are obvious trolls or low effort. | |||
=== | === I don't like Big Tech === | ||
=== Enshittification === | ==== Enshittification ==== | ||
My #1 reason for not liking Big Tech is enshittification. It's not secret that if it were so easy to self-host everything, someone would already have done it. But there's only so much a single person can do. Big Tech companies have massive infrastructure like data centers, thousands of employees, and multiple teams in order to host large projects. And even though I follow a lot of communities like degoogle, I myself rely on these tools because it's too convenient and when it comes to work and school I just need something that works, has best security, and allows collaboration. | |||
However, I've known a trend lately with Big Tech which is enshittification. I don't like how things we used for years like cloud storage, hardware, and smart IoT devices is suddenly getting worse just for the sake of prompting people to buy the next big thing. Good example is with iPhones and how Apple is notorious for slowing down older iPhones with software updates. I myself have experienced this issue. I remember my old iPhone 5 was running the latest iOS 10. One day, I decided to jailbreak it and downgrade to iOS 8 before Apple issued all these slow down updates, and it was so much incredibly faster it felt brand new! Even with software, there's just too many cases of AI (specifically LLMs) being embedded in every single service. Like do I really need a chatbot when talking with customer support smh. | |||
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==== Freedom of Speech + Self-hosting ==== | |||
Since all of this is self-hosted, I have freedom to post whatever I want on here. I am free from all the Big Tech censorship or Google Cloud or AWS decided to take it down because of accidentally going over their free service limits and refusing to pay a couple hundred for it. | |||
I'm using LAMP stack for this and it's all self-hosted on my personal laptop at home. I have setup cloudflare tunnel to hide my real IP + namecheap domain to make it easy for people to find. It's also way cheaper since the only thing I'm paying for is the hardware (which I bought this laptop back in 2022) and ongoing electricity costs (in which this laptop is plugged into my home router back at home so stealing their electricity lol). | |||
As for my laptop specs, here's the hyfetch UwU: | |||
[[File:Hyfetch.png|Laptop Specs|center|thumb|694x694px]] | |||
=== Paywalls and Login to View Content === | ==== Paywalls and Login to View Content ==== | ||
I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately on many websites. In order to view content on a site, you have to create an account. Here’s a couple examples: | I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately on many websites. In order to view content on a site, you have to create an account. Here’s a couple examples: | ||
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Why is this the case? All I want to see is the article or video from a Google search. Why do I have to give these companies my data just to see info that I found online? | Why is this the case? All I want to see is the article or video from a Google search. Why do I have to give these companies my data just to see info that I found online? | ||
=== Inspiration from Childhood Friend === | |||
When I was in grade school, one of my classmates created his own website where he would write entire tutorials and content for stuff that we learned in school. For lessons that we learned that day, he would go home, write entire recaps, and sometimes even record a youtube video of himself and embed it in the website. Many students liked his stuff, others found it super cringy cause he would literally go on the teacher's whiteboard and promote his website on it. But looking back, he did something that most students wouldn't take the time to do: sharing knowledge with other folks. | |||
=== Interest in ActivityPub, Fediverse === | === Interest in ActivityPub, Fediverse === | ||
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It’s really cool how self-hosting entire servers have grown and how reliable they’ve gotten to support massive amount of users. | It’s really cool how self-hosting entire servers have grown and how reliable they’ve gotten to support massive amount of users. | ||
=== This can all easily be archived and backed up === | === This can all easily be archived and backed up === | ||