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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

self hosted means hosted by yourself

A lot of selfhosters share with family. I'm not gonna make my wife spin up her own servers when she can use mine.

[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And what would you call your wife in this scenario? A selfhoster? Or a user of a service hosted by boonhet?

She’s not using a selfhosted service, she’s using a boonhet-hosted service. Because she has no control over the service or her data.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

That's just being overly pedantic.