This is purely for my own personal curiosity, but what’s the main reason you self-host? I say main because I don’t know how to allow multiple answers, if that’s possible at all. For me it’s the last option; because it’s cool. If it’s none of these reasons, absolutely make additional options in the comments.
@ mods, if this in any way breaks any of the rules or just generally detracts from the sub at all, I’ll gladly remove it. Also I didn’t flair it because none of the flairs seem to fit.
I started out self hosting everything… 20 years ago or so. Then I got swept up in the “cloud” movement and put so many things into the “cloud”.
Today I’m reverting back to how I started, self hosting everything that I can.
Mainly privacy, but also because they keep changing and I don’t want to have to worry about them.
I just didn’t feel like it was ‘my’ data anymore.