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Terry Frazier
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I have had a VPS for 15 years, run my own domains, email, blogs, websites, surveys, galleries, etc. Ran NextCloud for a while. Manage my own small business infrastructure. Stuff like that. But I can do all that without having to login thru a terminal, run a bunch of apt commands, deal with dependencies, etc.

I would install ditto this afternoon, but I'm not going to do this: https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/install

It's way outside my comfort zone.

(Note to well-meaning but misguided commenters: Kindly refrain from "bro, it's not that hard" comments. I don't care. If you believe "it's not that hard," you're part of the problem.)

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Marco Siedentopf · 104w
What is the largest blocker for self hosting among people, that aren't too deep into tech? What would be the requirement for the family next door, to self-host their services, or the Grandpa down the street? I've helped an 85 year old granny to get familiar with Android. She was using a Samsung phon...