Some people get into self hosting just because they’re interested in the mechanics of it, but many people I think got inducted by the fact that for example, Facebook or snapchat make it so difficult to save your own pictures or migrate to another service, or the possibility that Google is reading all of your emails, etc. Others may have been radicalized by a specific event, such as a service provider closing up business and therefore you lose your data.

For me, it was Spore com. I loved Spore, from the time I got it for my 10th birthday to maybe the age of 16 or 17 I poured hundreds or probably thousands of hours into this game. As I got older I became less invested in the gameplay and more invested in the creative aspect of it. I designed some badass creatures and spaceships that I was really proud of. I had a whole line of Spaceships that all served different roles in my head cannon, with different races of aliens following different themes.

EA/Maxis/whoever runs Spore now purged all of them from spore.com, and now they’re gone. Years of my childhood essentially put into a locked box and the key thrown away. For me it was like losing a scrapbook in a fire. What right did they have?

So I ask, What radicalized you?

  • cmmmota@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago
    • The overall enshittification of online digital services.
    • The fact that I was at the mercy of multiple companies and my ISP to turn on/off my smart devices connected to my LOCAL network
    • The fact that I was paying for spotify just to play the same few hundred songs, most of which I’d already purchased in the past. Same thing for Disney+ and the kids shows my nephews watch.
    • The company that provided the password manager I used got hacked
    • I was using a digital assistant with an always-on microphone as a glorified timer.

    That’s just off the top of my head.

    • Livid_Bee_5150@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      What’s your current password manager solution? I just use bitwarden because I read it is open source

      • AlexFullmoon@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        SafeInCloud. Not as pure and audited as more known ones, but good enough for me, syncs over webDAV and has native clients with actually good UX.

        I also run a backup instance of Vaultwarden in case I need some passwords on a new device over LAN/VPN.

    • oldkale@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      spotify

      This is the one that got me to realize that even if I was paying, I was still the product.

    • pcs3rd@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yea. I use Spotify for discovery, but since I found *arr, I couldn’t even tell you what streaming service the content I watch came from.

    • dash488@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Cory spoke at DEF CON but the talk at Supercon really hit in the feels for me. Enshittification is such a great word and something he has taken and really put the heat under with the EFF to really put the rubber to the road with all the shitty internet we as a culture have experienced. He is a really nice guy and would love to hear from you if you reach out and relate to whats happening. Or not, just my 2c.

      Heres the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1ud0rAT7w