It occurred to me the weak point with nodes, decentralization and general self hosting is the lack of time to get software and hardware together and make it work.
In essence the “IT Crowd,” had a point calling a small box “the internet.”
Think Gaming consoles, you have one at home, generally you serve the games from your console and and download necessary updates, well they wouldn’t have been before the internet, but I digress.
So if Gab or Orbys et al… built a box, with a profile served on it that could serve all your posts and also manifest them on the groups and feed from that box, or miniserver and even make it possible to have an assigned domain, it would be amazing.
Hell, even hosting one’s self if a server that works like a host with ftp connections, FFMPEG, SQL types, Control Panel (possibly of choice), etc… you could host your own sites like this on it and just buy it once. Maybe your paying a small annual subscription for it (firmware/cpanel updates), but as for hardware, short of maybe desiring the latest processor and ram types you’ll always be good to go.
Difficulty is often knowing the best way to rig up your servers and time for it even more so.
Also, what might be needed is like stuff you can upgrade like removing and changing old games cartridges, could use that even with lap tops, come to think of it.
Use this idea, send me 5% of all sales. Consider it leased on your honor. Contact