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I'm very skeptical of this take. I don't think that bandwidth is the limiting factor for self-hosting. The limiting factor is that it's not easy/convenient enou

• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  >If you thought upload capacity was the limiting factor for self-hosting, why wouldn't those same upload capacity constraints negatively impact cloud adoption? You still have to upload your files to a cloud server. Those uploads are happening at varying speeds at varying times of day, as the capacity allows it. And the constraints do negatively impact cloud adoption, as families that were stuck at home found out trying to have multiple video calls and quality is degraded. There can be more than one limiting factor, but obviously bandwidth is a fundamental limiting factor. Without it, you are not even going to see companies explore the options of selling self hosted solutions, hence we do not even know what advancements in easy/convenient self hosted systems might have been. What peer to peer capabilities we may have had. Societies with home connections heavily allocated for download and minimal upload are just asking to be controlled by gatekeepers.