• xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    I thought the entire point of federated networks is that they give power to users, not to random rich people. If you want someone with a lot of money to decide what content you can see, you can go back to Twitter and Reddit.

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        10 months ago

        Ah, so it’s exactly like commercial networks then, where the true users are not those who create content, but those who want to police what other people can talk about.

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              10 months ago

              All this is telling us is that you have no idea how much it costs or what it takes to run a server, or what a server is.

              A server is just a computer that serves traffic from other computers. The rpi running pihole on my network is a server. My gaming desktop that doubles as a plex server sometimes is a server. The pfSense router managing my network is a server. The proxmox node that I have running a bunch of home utility and automation services is… you guessed it: a server.

              You can find computers that are being essentially given away if you look for them online. Big companies clean out inventory all the time, and snagging old systems is not only cheap, but also helps to mitigate e-waste. It can be as cheap or as expensive as you need it to be, based on your budget and intended uses.

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                10 months ago

                Sure, the computer itself is cheap, but it’s useless without having your own house where you have access to the router configuration.

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                    10 months ago

                    If you just buy a computer, you can run a Lemmy instance on it, but there will be no way to connect to it from outside your local network, making it pretty much useless. If you want it to work as an actual server, as far as I’m aware, you need to configure the router through which it’s connected to the internet to allow this.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          No not at all.

          The big difference is that with federated stuff like Lemmy you can own the actual content you create. By running your own instance, of course. Become a user. Own the data.