@realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city Regardless, the developers are now increasingly wary about “their” tools not being truly theirs anymore. Same goes for most of the infrastructure they rely on - social media, storage, distribution, the tools they use to design their assets with…

Don’t worry about that one! I’ve been working in digital for about ten years already, self-hosting is a nice side gig I have for my own amusement

Believe it or not, self-hosting! I went from renting a VPS for $40 a month, to purchasing an entire $150 machine at home, plus $50 or so in additional storage, plus a $20 a month VPS solely to bypass NAT restrictions… plus a few hundred dollars more when I first started, because I cheaped out on components and managed to brick not one, but two Intel BIOSes trying to update them.