I’ve never posted on Lemmy before. I tried to ask this question of the greater community but I had to pick a community and didn’t know which one. This shows up as lemmy.world but that wasn’t an option.
Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host? What is the advantage/cost. Sorry if I’m hijacking. Maybe someone could just post a link or something.
I’ll look into it. In the past I seen to recall that all of the contacts were there but the previous conversations were either fine or severely truncated.
Well, regrettably, I live here. I will, also regrettably, be returning from a trip to Europe.
But I didn’t really want to lose my text conversations. Very little of it has to do with politics but, you know, there’s probably some on there somewhere.
Most “incriminating” stuff (if I even know what that is) ON my android phone is probably text messaging. I use a program called Textra. Any suggestions for that?
The rest would be in the cloud, like comments here or on YouTube videos or wherever Google stores the stuff I say while my phone is near.
IDK, kind of thinking about leaving it at home, but I really want the communication while I’m in airports and I use it for music on airplanes and in hotel showers and stuff.
Wow! Thank you all for the civilized responses. This all sounds so great. I am older and I feel like I’ve already seen enough ads for one lifetime and I hate all this fascist tracking crap.
But how does that work? Is it just a network on which you store your stuff in a way that you can download it anywhere or can it do more? I mean, to me that’s just a home network. Hosting sounds like it’s designed for other people to access. Can I put my website on there? If so, how do I go about registering my domain each year. I’m not computer illiterate but this sounds kind of beyond my skill level. I’ll go search Jellyfin, weird name, and see what I can find. Thanks again!