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I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience. I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff. I str
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Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp: diana penty
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Feb 24, 2026
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Neil is absolutely spot on and we need to talk about the politics of this. Telling people to "just self-host" to escape surveillance capitalism is the exact same tactic as telling people to "calculate your carbon footprint" to stop climate change.
It individualizes a systemic, corporate failure.
Privacy and digital safety shouldn't be luxury goods reserved for cis-white-male engineers with unmetered fiber connections, rack-mount servers along with free time and financial stability to pull it off. When our response to the collapse of digital rights is "run your own infrastructure," we are engaging in digital redlining. The solution to predatory data brokering isn't forcing single mothers working two jobs to learn Kubernetes; the solution is ruthlessly regulating the data brokers out of existence.
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