It’s pretty much the way of the world: beyond the basic enshittification story that has been so well told over the past year or so about how companies get worse and worse as they get more and more …
But you could do some media serving. Take back your life from both Google AND all 263 streaming services all at once! You could even self-host a Lemmy or Mastodon instance and take back control from social media giants while you’re at it! Add in NextCloud and self-hosted Bitwarden, and idk what cloud service you could realistically need at that point, and it’s all yours!
Just something to think about, comes highly recommended from me. $4-500 startup cost is like 2-3 times what my broke ass is comfortable with, but I have not regretted my purchases for even 1 single day.
For sure–I just don’t tend to watch anything more than once. :) Most of my federated identity and offsites are at SDF, which is a solid place with a mission I respect and certainly don’t mind giving $36/year to. Grayjay for stupid vids (if I could just get it to work with FCast…)
But you could do some media serving. Take back your life from both Google AND all 263 streaming services all at once! You could even self-host a Lemmy or Mastodon instance and take back control from social media giants while you’re at it! Add in NextCloud and self-hosted Bitwarden, and idk what cloud service you could realistically need at that point, and it’s all yours!
Just something to think about, comes highly recommended from me. $4-500 startup cost is like 2-3 times what my broke ass is comfortable with, but I have not regretted my purchases for even 1 single day.
For sure–I just don’t tend to watch anything more than once. :) Most of my federated identity and offsites are at SDF, which is a solid place with a mission I respect and certainly don’t mind giving $36/year to. Grayjay for stupid vids (if I could just get it to work with FCast…)