This is purely for my own personal curiosity, but what’s the main reason you self-host? I say main because I don’t know how to allow multiple answers, if that’s possible at all. For me it’s the last option; because it’s cool. If it’s none of these reasons, absolutely make additional options in the comments.

@ mods, if this in any way breaks any of the rules or just generally detracts from the sub at all, I’ll gladly remove it. Also I didn’t flair it because none of the flairs seem to fit.

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  • PristinePineapple13@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    mostly for fun, cuz i guess for some reason i enjoy having problems, but that leads to it also being for education. i’ve learned a lot maintaining these systems. and it’s just cool, i like being able to say i can and try out different software to see what works. i like the custom approach rather than a one size fits all society

  • ChrunedMacaroon@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Cost is kind of in the grey zone for data/media hoarders. Like, I bought two 16tb HDDs and that cost me a pretty penny. I could have used that same amount of money for streaming services (or whatever) and relieve myself of the pain of tinkering. Partially, it’s about saying fuck you to the giant corpos in my own little way, and a little bit is about just knowing how to get what I need without paying for them which feels neat. Sometimes I feel a little guilty doing this but most media are shit anyway, and I buy the things I really like so that’s that.

  • it_prof@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    When you use the service hosted by someone else there is a compromise on lot of features that you can have for free. Though the luxury of having privacy, security and learning while you dosel host cannot be discounted and above all free.

  • that_one_wierd_guy@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    variety of content. who wants to pay for five plus services because there’s not one that has everything you want to watch/read/listen to

  • JoeB-@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    OP, your poll needs an “All of the above” option. That would be my choice.

  • fjixdla@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Independence. I’m done with relying on external service providers. They can’t be trusted. There is an inherent conflict of interests between commercial service providers and their users. It’s not in their best interest to provide the best service possible, it’s in their interest to provide a service that is barely better than the competition (if there even is any competition). That’s the reason why commercial services are never great and always just “meh”. I don’t want to rely on parties whose interests are against mine. Because sooner or later they will turn into shit.

  • Thomas5020@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Cost, and control.

    I want to own my stuff. And I want direct control over it. I want it to do exactly what I want, when I want, how I want. I’m sick of paying monthly rental charges, and I’m sick of companies making changes to services that negatively impact my experience.

    My hardware, my software, my rules. Simple as that really.

  • jmartin72@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Cost? when you look at price of equipment plus increase in power consumption, is it really cheaper?

  • anothercorgi@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I would have voted “because it’s cool” but really it’s because I have control of my software and my equipment. Education is part of the deal. Security and privacy is not guaranteed but it’s under my control.

    Definitely missing out on “better services” because large data models can do very good spam filtering which I don’t get because I don’t have access to other peoples’ mail … (which falls into privacy concerns… of other people…)