In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.
  • Omnipitaph@reddthat.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This guy didn’t want to do the leg work of emailing his photos to his friends, and declares self-hosting isn’t the solution to a social net? I totally see the point in community hosting, in fact I’m all for that.

    But really? You don’t have to make your servers public facing, you just white-list the people you want to see your stuff and make sure to organize your drives with public and private pages.

    He went through all that and didn’t take it far enough.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      10 months ago

      emailing his photos to his friends

      that’s sometimes difficult, e.g. when you have thousands of photos, and emails have a size limit of 20 MB per email. using matrix chat or sth is also not ideal since the other side will have to download images one-by-one. sending a zip file might work, but the matrix protocol might have a size limit for attachments.

      an FTP server might work. also consider that you want to store the images somewhere, not just send them once. how do you do that with messaging services?