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This article by @parisba is why #CommunityHosting and #SelfHosting need to be normalised. They are the only way we can stop scenarios like this happening:
📰 https://hey.paris/posts/appleid
You might think this couldn't happen to you, but it could happen to anyone. It's especially scary as most big tech companies are in repressive countries.
It's much easier and cheaper than you think to make your own online services. I've done a guide for non-technical people at https://growyourown.services
Hey people who run their own PeerTube servers 👋
There is a little-publicised feature in PeerTube which lets servers subscribe to a shared "allowlist" of good servers to federate with. (You can also manually federate with additional servers that aren't on the list.)
Would there be any interest in setting up such a shared list so that PeerTube admins can easily find other nice/safe servers to federate with?
It's surprisingly easy to create your own private music streaming service for all your devices. I did a short review and tutorial for one based on Nextcloud's "Music" app:
🌱 https://growyourown.services/review-of-music-app-for-nextcloud
In brief, you install Music on your Nextcloud, then install a compatible app on your phone or tablet, and your music collection becomes a streaming service you can listen to anywhere.
You can also share this streaming service with other users on your Nextcloud.
Most public Fediverse servers are running on professional hosting services using business-grade data centres. They are owned and controlled by grassroots admins, but they are on the same kind of hardware as commercial online services.
For some reason there's a misconception floating around that all Fediverse servers run on home machines in a corner of someone's living room. This usually isn't the case. It is possible to do, but most admins don't do this, especially not for public servers.