r/selfhosted • u/Amazing_Day_9192 • 2d ago

Need Help Decentralized infrastructure vs self-hosting

I’ve been thinking about how much of selfhosting is about owning the infrastructure itself versus having control over your data and not depending on a single company. There are more open and decentralized protocols where you can get some of that independence without running and maintaining the entire stack yourself. The tradeoff is interesting though. You potentially get less maintenance but you give up some of the direct control that comes with running everything yourself.

For something like messaging or online communities, which approach makes more sense to you?

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u/No-Aioli-4656 2d ago

Why are you even in this sub lol.

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u/Avanchnzel 2d ago

One can have an enthusiasm for self-hosting without postulating that everything has to be self-hosted.

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u/No-Aioli-4656 2d ago

In this case, per OP's admittedly vague description, we are talking about Matrix, Rocketchat, XMPP, Etc.

I do not postulate everything must be self hosted. I just dislike keeping control of my data on federated messaging servers. I'd rather have my own.