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I think it is completely absurd to expect every content creator, with their diverse talents, to all _also_ posses the expertise needed to host their own content
by phinnaeus 8y ago
I think it is completely absurd to expect every content creator, with their diverse talents, to all _also_ posses the expertise needed to host their own content.
Reminds me of the Dropbox launch thread here on HN a decade ago where some sysadmin chimes in with "but this is so easy for the layman to do themselves with FTP and [other technologies laypeople have never heard of]" (not an actual quote).
- CamperBob2 8y agoIf the law were structured to make Dropbox illegal, then that particular neckbeard's observation would have been much more insightful. It seems likely that individual users are going to have to "get technical" in response to creeping authoritarianism from the EU and other powerful, unaccountable actors.
- drchaos 8y agoBut does it really have to be that difficult? It's absolutely possible to build a system where you can deploy a docker container with a single click and host your own content on that. Add federation into the mix, and you'll get some kind of meta-Youtube or -Bandcamp, comprised of thousands of individual instances, which do not even need to be on the same hosting service. The blogosphere was similar to that, before everyone gave up and went to Facebook.