Humans were made second class netizens when ISPs made self hosting very difficult for individuals. While self-hosting doesn’t solve everything (and introduces

Humans were made second class netizens when ISPs made self hosting very difficult for individuals. While self-hosting doesn’t solve everything (and introduces its own problems) it does place control of content in the hands of people hosting it. Facebook, reddit, and the rest should be protocols that your server can speak. You can allow/deny access on your terms. But instead we ended up putting our stuff on other people’s computers and they went and blabbed it all over the internet.