@ae1c89a6 Oh certainly, and I’m glad to see the rise of more federated services! I’m referring more to what the internet was originally envisioned as, versus what it became. I mean, I can host anything by renting a virtual (or physical) server — but my point is we all should be able to host from our own computers, out of our own homes, but dynamic IPs, artificial ISP limits, and terms of service forbid it, and that’s bullshit.
@ffabe43d Dynamic IPs are a mixed bag and the inheritence of IPv4, not a conspiracy. If I were an ISP, I'd want upload/download limits of *some* kind, so I could plan infrastructure outlays.
Do you have a vigorous local market in last-mile internet providers? I'd look at that market for root causes of poor options.
@ae1c89a6 Nope! We have two providers to choose from: the bad one, and the worse one! (For wired internet, anyway.)
As for the rest: sure, cap UL/DL bandwidth, but keep it symmetric. Monthly data caps are a bit harder to justify IMO. Dynamic IPs may be a legacy of IPv4, but I’m still a bit sore about the botched IPv6 adoption. Most of all, ISP TOS banning people from running their own servers is some serious bullshit.
Anyways, I do plan on checking out Peertube!
@ffabe43d If you really want to host from home, consider using a .onion #tor address. The IP can change, all the network cares about is that your server has the private key for the address. And I guarantee you won’t hit those pesky bandwidth limits, ha ha
@ae1c89a6 @ffabe43d Lol. Reminds me of using OnionShare myself to share over 10GBs of video data to a friend, because I was unable to circumvent the NAT of my router. 😁
Probably have picked something else if I had knewn what "NAT hole punching" means.
@7900ce57 @ffabe43d IPv6 is great for evading firewalls… that’s why I block it at home, and allow it on my VPS servers
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