Their whole purpose is monopolization of advertising engagement to make money for shareholders. Collecting user data, building profiles, targeted ads, prioritizing rage bait and conspiracies and misinformation, hiding alternatives like open source software and distributed community supported software, are all in support of that goal.
Somehow I imagine that Microsoft might be involved in this, most likely through some quid pro quo to pimp its users for facebook. Its either that or its just that facebook sees linux as a threat as its not data harvesting like microsoft and facebook are, but I find it hard to believe that facebook would do this purely to protect the closed source market without also getting microsoft to pitch in someway. Why would facebook want a free operating system that doesnt harvest data to exist? Id be worried too.
If you understand linux it’s only a small leap to understand selfhosting. If you understand selfhosting it’s only a small jump to hosting your own Fediverse instances, thereby completely eliminating your dependency on the big social media giants.
Anecdote for support:
In only two days I went from “I can use BASH and the GNU Coreutils for most of my daily tasks on my PC” to “I understand networking well enough, own a domain with several webapps, and have successfully gained independence from the tech giants regarding cloud storage.”
In two days, with only the purchase of a domain for about $10US, I’ve saved myself $15/mo from spotify, and over $40 from all the video streaming apps by rolling out Jellyfin, as well as Regained ownership of my photos from Google by downloading everything as a zip and rehosting it on my selfhosted immich instance.
This stuff is genuinely not difficult, it’s tedious for sure, and for an OSS noob it will take some time, certainly more than it took me.
Very late but curious. How difficult is it for someone who genuinely never has used Linux before, to go those leaps? Someone who’s not braindead à la “grandma doesn’t know what the red X button is or does”, but just a basic user “I’ve heard of a terminal and you can do commands with it but idk, I use maps and files…”.
It can be a lot, I’m a year in and still feel like a noob. I’ve only just now moved from being behind a cloudflare tunnel to being behind a proper reverse-proxy. That doesn’t mean anything to you yet, it will!
There’s plenty of guides to get started. Louis Rossman did a 12hr guide on selfhosting your entire life (I still haven’t watched the whole thing).
This works around CGNAT, and bypasses the need for port forwarding BUT it keeps you reliant on a corpo and keeps all your data moving through their servers, which means low upload limits and your traffic could (see: will) be monitored.
Anything your exposing to the internet should be considered disposable until you know enough to keep a server online safely. Keep backups, offsite. If you have 1 backup, you have no backups. If you only have onsite backups, you have no backups.
Most servers you’re gonna want to run will come with relatively detailed documentation for rolling things out, but when it comes to security you’ll be on your own. This is because the optimal security configuration for your needs depends on your threat model. Until learning proper network security, I’d recommend paying for a VPS to host your servers on and connecting via proxmox or a similar tool, lest you risk leaving gaping security holes in your home network.
Have fun, happy selfhosting, feel free to DM me if you need assistance, I’m not on lemmy often anymore but my inbox goes to my RSS aggregator so I’ll see it.
oh, and PS. Don’t selfhost your email, it’s not worth the hassle.
It’s a bit more complicated but the video I linked suggests using DuckDNS and a Wireguard VPN. It certainly works though in my experience it can be a bit of a pain because of CGNAT. If you have a reliable static or long-lived IP lease on IPv6 though it’s much less clumsy.
But how many mainstream or “normie” users are going to do any of that? But I guess if Facebook feels threatened, that’s a step in the right direction. That’s competition, which capitalism says is supposed to be good, right….
But why?
Facebook makes money off of surveillance and many Linux communities like to make that harder. So I’m thinking its about money and big brother.
We are all super cool hackers obviously
Their whole purpose is monopolization of advertising engagement to make money for shareholders. Collecting user data, building profiles, targeted ads, prioritizing rage bait and conspiracies and misinformation, hiding alternatives like open source software and distributed community supported software, are all in support of that goal.
Somehow I imagine that Microsoft might be involved in this, most likely through some quid pro quo to pimp its users for facebook. Its either that or its just that facebook sees linux as a threat as its not data harvesting like microsoft and facebook are, but I find it hard to believe that facebook would do this purely to protect the closed source market without also getting microsoft to pitch in someway. Why would facebook want a free operating system that doesnt harvest data to exist? Id be worried too.
If you understand linux it’s only a small leap to understand selfhosting. If you understand selfhosting it’s only a small jump to hosting your own Fediverse instances, thereby completely eliminating your dependency on the big social media giants.
Anecdote for support:
In only two days I went from “I can use BASH and the GNU Coreutils for most of my daily tasks on my PC” to “I understand networking well enough, own a domain with several webapps, and have successfully gained independence from the tech giants regarding cloud storage.”
In two days, with only the purchase of a domain for about $10US, I’ve saved myself $15/mo from spotify, and over $40 from all the video streaming apps by rolling out Jellyfin, as well as Regained ownership of my photos from Google by downloading everything as a zip and rehosting it on my selfhosted immich instance.
This stuff is genuinely not difficult, it’s tedious for sure, and for an OSS noob it will take some time, certainly more than it took me.
Very late but curious. How difficult is it for someone who genuinely never has used Linux before, to go those leaps? Someone who’s not braindead à la “grandma doesn’t know what the red X button is or does”, but just a basic user “I’ve heard of a terminal and you can do commands with it but idk, I use maps and files…”.
Like is there a self hosting guide for idiots?
It can be a lot, I’m a year in and still feel like a noob. I’ve only just now moved from being behind a cloudflare tunnel to being behind a proper reverse-proxy. That doesn’t mean anything to you yet, it will!
There’s plenty of guides to get started. Louis Rossman did a 12hr guide on selfhosting your entire life (I still haven’t watched the whole thing).
I started here with this guide: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuRWqzfX1ik It’s short, sweet, easy to digest.
If you wanna start super easy.
This works around CGNAT, and bypasses the need for port forwarding BUT it keeps you reliant on a corpo and keeps all your data moving through their servers, which means low upload limits and your traffic could (see: will) be monitored.
Anything your exposing to the internet should be considered disposable until you know enough to keep a server online safely. Keep backups, offsite. If you have 1 backup, you have no backups. If you only have onsite backups, you have no backups.
Most servers you’re gonna want to run will come with relatively detailed documentation for rolling things out, but when it comes to security you’ll be on your own. This is because the optimal security configuration for your needs depends on your threat model. Until learning proper network security, I’d recommend paying for a VPS to host your servers on and connecting via proxmox or a similar tool, lest you risk leaving gaping security holes in your home network.
Have fun, happy selfhosting, feel free to DM me if you need assistance, I’m not on lemmy often anymore but my inbox goes to my RSS aggregator so I’ll see it.
oh, and PS. Don’t selfhost your email, it’s not worth the hassle.
Isn’t cloudflare American? is there no way to avoid that?
It’s a bit more complicated but the video I linked suggests using DuckDNS and a Wireguard VPN. It certainly works though in my experience it can be a bit of a pain because of CGNAT. If you have a reliable static or long-lived IP lease on IPv6 though it’s much less clumsy.
Oh shit. I hope we on Lemmy can still have our little thing. It would be kinda lonely without Americans…
But how many mainstream or “normie” users are going to do any of that? But I guess if Facebook feels threatened, that’s a step in the right direction. That’s competition, which capitalism says is supposed to be good, right….
Every normie doesn’t need to spin up an instance to hurt meta, just enough of them that migration becomes noticeable