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What's the biggest reason you self-host? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Darkextratoasty@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] anothercorgi@alien.top 1 points 11 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...)