> Not only that, but this is the biggest omission of the truth: Making your own server is no longer possible because of assertions. All Snaps are now digitally

> Not only that, but this is the biggest omission of the truth: Making your own server is no longer possible because of assertions. All Snaps are now digitally signed by Canonical, so you actually need to have the end-user install a forked snap tool on their system to access the custom repository. You cannot disable this signing - your only way around it is to manually download the snap and install it with `--dangerous` through the CLI. And you won't get auto updates that way. The blogpost is very clear that each _device_ is made to point to a single store. If you want to point it to a different store, you have to recompile snapd to include your own certificate. This is why I talk about, for example, Manjaro having their own store. Since they compile snapd, they get to choose what certificate is used and so what store is being used.