• ExLisperA
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    But hosting servers cost real money so creating thousands of them may not be cost effective for spammers. Paywalls are the best defense against spammers. Of course this is all hypothetical. Self hosting will never be mainstream. Or maybe? 🤔

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      Self hosting will never be mainstream. Or maybe?

      No way, because posting on already-established corpo platforms is much less of a barrier to entry.

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        What if we make self hosting super easy? Like select the services you want to host, choose a domain, pay and bam, you’ve got your self hosted instance of lemmy/mastodon/pixelfed and so on?