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> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.

This is sad to hear. People do run their own servers in their homes though, they are called routers, except they only serve one thing. Pity we don't have a lightweight self-updating system that sits in a router and does the basic job of keeping the user's data.



There are many projects to do that, such as this one started in 2010 by the founder of the Software Freedom Foundation (sibling rival of FSF?):

https://freedombox.org/about/

My memory is that it's basically a wall plug like a router, but it can run apps for you locally.

Unfortunately my sense is that there's no much incentive to donate or contribute to such projects :-( So people don't even know they exist.




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