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- Oct 2024
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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I control my emails. I can grep them, migrate them, back them up however I want, I can choose who gets through the spam filter. And this is my most sensitive data - password resets, personal emails, personal info - honestly I'm surprised more selfhosters don't do it.
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- Sep 2020
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macwright.com macwright.com
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The appeal of social networks is partly because they let us create documents without thinking about web technology,
mirrors strongly another comment i made, that our appetites & expectations for computing has outstripped the personal, that we now expect computing to be connective. we want the digital matter we create to exist not just locally, but widely. https://hypothes.is/a/11-k1v7pEeqJ1qdf5kJahQ
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There was a time when we could install applications, give some sort of explicit agreement that something would run on our computers and use our hardware. That time is ending,
The end seems perilously close at hand for personal computing, but, imo, as much as anything that is because users now expect to compute to have impact & effect far beyond the beige box.
Open source has many amazing things, but in terms of ways to get user's digital stuff online & available & circulating, there have been precious few compelling attempts. I'd call out in particular RemoteStorage spec, & the newer SOLID specs from MIT & TBL.
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