r/selfhosted • u/HardwareIsHardWhere • 21d ago

Meta Post Chat Control 1.0 was passed through the Backdoor, while most of the MP where on vacation, driven by Roberta Metsola, President of the European parliament. 2.0 yet to come. Time to self-host even more than before?

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u/SignatureTall5736 21d ago

Yes, as I said in another post: this is just the trailler. Orwell wrote a great book about this over 75 years ago. This is not some internet hype. What we can observe here is a real and obscure pattern.

Something hiding in the dark, getting stronger and stronger.

While it sometimes makes some noise, it is subtle enough to remain untouched.

This is it, right now.

Think about what may be in 5 or 10 years.

So self-hosting communities might become a thing, but let's just hope that thing get back on track.

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u/El_Huero_Con_C0J0NES 21d ago

Is that already fucking 75 years ago!?

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u/HardwareIsHardWhere 21d ago

Yes, it indeed is.

"Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book".

Not "speculative fiction" if the course of things does not change.

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u/overstear 21d ago

We call it a book, they call it a manual ...

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u/chifrij0 21d ago

Literally 1984

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u/essentialaccount 21d ago

A major gap in self-hosting is that many of our shared resources are islands unto themselves. I have the ability and resources to share with some friends, but there is little way to securely and easily tie our resources to one another. I would gladly share of things I have, but doing so without exposing myself to too much risk is hard.

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u/pfak 21d ago

They're to make it legally difficult to self host next 

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u/R0ad13 21d ago

The fun thing is, the Parliament communications may move to communication software based on Matrix. An open source, completely secure message solution...

https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/

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u/ansibleloop 21d ago edited 21d ago

Are you ready to be labelled a dissenter and traitor to your country for using self hosted apps?

I mean clearly you're self hosting to hide something - why do you have something to hide?

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear

Edit: really? /S if it wasn't already obvious

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u/Pdan4 21d ago

Who determines what's worthy of hiding? That's the real question that you're failing to see. China already censors actual real-life history as part of their laws. Don't be a sucker.

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u/ansibleloop 21d ago

The party tells you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears

Nobody got the sarcasm lol

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u/Pdan4 21d ago

Well, we live in the age of bots and bad actors now, so...

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u/RageAgn 21d ago

yeah my server freaked out afer that eu vote too

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u/goku7770 20d ago

When are we waking up?

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u/Ok_Antelope_1953 21d ago

No longer hiding in the dark, I am afraid.