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Tired of the problems of large instances? Join the small instances alliance! ๐
Or even better: host your own so you can be the reason the instance is down.
Host my own? In this economy?
But think of all the IT security you can ignore.
You don't need to rent some big shot cloud hosting system. You can literally run it on a Raspberry Pi or a virtual machine on your existing computer. If it's just you on there, even that is overkill.
cries in selfhosted email server
Never again..
It's bad enough self hosting a Discord bot and getting yelled at randomly when it goes down