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This is a very complete article that covers most of the pitfalls of self-hosting services.

As someone who self-hosts a good chunk of the services that I use, I am in total agreement of the challenges that face the poor souls that seek alternatives to big tech.

From Oracle (allegedly) randomly shutting down instances [0] to Google doing A-B testing [1] on how to further lock down Youtube videos.

It truly is a treacherous journey for the self-hosters.

[0] https://gist.github.com/yewtudotbe/c16a69ddad88a37c2a364a5ff...

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4027#issuecomment...



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