Learn to host your own services now. Because in the future you might not be able to discover how.
Since folks have asked, I'll elaborate a bit.
I believe Google/Microsoft/OpenAI/et al will increasingly work to strip search results which provide alternatives to their own products, and that includes self-hosted media.
I've seen this when I've attempted to cover using RSS feeds instead of YouTube subscriptions- I have no reason to trust Google to surface Google alternatives in good faith.
There will come a point where you ask internet-oracle-of-choice "how do I self-host a Netflix alternative" and they will intentionally give you bad advice in order to discourage you.
That point is coming sooner rather than later, and we need to train *an entire generation* of internet users how to get out of this trap.
That's *our* work to do, RIGHT NOW.
@vkc those same company own your internet provider though, and if self hosting bothers them they can make it hard to do on their network - what are we going to do next - build our own broadband?
@laurentoget @vkc If that's what it ends up taking to maintain a functional internet, then yes. But thankfully the internet backbones are generally in a much better place than the major web companies are.
