The next tech industry crash will probably take out all the big platforms because they never really figured out how to make money, and self-hosting will take over as Basic Hardware capabilities have been improving all the while, the software to host servers and get through NAT jail have improved, and Regulatory crap like porn bands and age verification have given a decisive Edge to platforms too small to be effectively censored passed a whack-a-mole level short of extreme censorship which even then can be bypassed with wireless or wired Mesh networking.
Think about it, feature wise what does reddit do that Lemmy or piefed can’t? Plex is the best way to stream already. Hosting a website is also trivial now when it used to be a big deal that Apache web server existed in the first place.
The next tech industry crash will probably take out all the big platforms because they never really figured out how to make money, and self-hosting will take over as Basic Hardware capabilities have been improving all the while, the software to host servers and get through NAT jail have improved, and Regulatory crap like porn bands and age verification have given a decisive Edge to platforms too small to be effectively censored passed a whack-a-mole level short of extreme censorship which even then can be bypassed with wireless or wired Mesh networking.
Think about it, feature wise what does reddit do that Lemmy or piefed can’t? Plex is the best way to stream already. Hosting a website is also trivial now when it used to be a big deal that Apache web server existed in the first place.