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Can’t a corporation just enter the space whenever they want to? Can’t they start or even buy out larger instances? Even if Lemmy does take off, wouldn’t this inevitably happen anyway if the space gets popular enough?

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[–] grimaldi@the.unknowing.dance 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A VPS is basically just a complicated way of making an account with a large infrastructure provider imo if i can't have a raspberry pi, that costs only electricity, and have it host an email server

the protocol is not open! at least it is more closed than i'd like - it's open enough for companies, granted

[–] insomniac@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I have to have a computer, imo it’s not open. It should just be in the air or it’s literally an impossible barrier for anyone to get past.

[–] grimaldi@the.unknowing.dance 1 points 1 year ago

?? This is clearly not what i'm saying. Residential Hosting is technically possible - everything works as intended, it's just that a tiny bit of extra logic on the recievers side rejects the delivery.

That's very different from...? Demanding the air? Hosts it?

I just think the requirement is red tape, and i have no idea why yall are so ready to accept, that you shouldn't own the machienes you run your code on, if you're not a company.

Suree, i am a bit oblivious, it may be that it's as "easy" as calling your isp. It's just that my isp never picks up, and sends the pinkertons after me to get me to stop calling.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know how much electricity costs where you live, but running a RasPi 24/7 would cost around £2 per month here. Then you also need to factor in internet costs, backups, maintenance, etc. You can get a VPS from £5 per month with everything included. You can get something even cheaper if you really want to. There's literally no point running anything at home, except for Home Assistant.

And yes, everything is open. You just want weird things.

[–] grimaldi@the.unknowing.dance 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A VPS is rented

Thats like not understanding why people own a home I mean yah i coul get a static ip i guess that would actually make sense

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's not the same as owning a home. Also you can put your own hardware on premises or rent a static IP address. All of your arguments are nothing but ignorance.