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With containerization and cheap cloud instances, people can much more easily deploy their own instance of a service like this such that only they (and maybe the
by Kerrick 2y ago
With containerization and cheap cloud instances, people can much more easily deploy their own instance of a service like this such that only they (and maybe their trusted friends) can log in. My wife has a private paste bin that she runs on her own subdomain. There are no concerns about content moderation because all of the content is hers, and traffic is so minimal that one VPS can run a bunch of these little services.
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- lovich 2y agoI think reverting to only talking to your small social circle instead of the public at large might be one of those chilling effects the OP mentioned
- dowager_dan99 2y agomaybe? but they also feel like completely different use-cases. It would be nice if we could solve the service discoverability problem and the service utilization problem independently. Just like the vast majority of businesses shouldn't be high-growth startups, most resources & communities should be intimate and relatively private.
- Kerrick 2y agoThe paste bin contents are visible to the public at large. The visibility of the content is no different than if she'd picked a public paste bin service--it just means nobody has to moderate anything because the uploader is the service owner.
- eviks 2y ago> people can much more easily deploy But not easily, so this still won't happen.