27: The Year of the Personal Cloud

In this episode, Jared gives a detailed rundown of all of the big commercial internet services he’s replaced with open source, self-hosted software that he controls himself. Why would anyone want to do this? Three words: privacy, security, and network health. Just as biologists know that an ecosystem with a large amount of organism diversity is more resilient to environmental pressures, the internet is more resilient to negative forces when software and content is distributed and spread across the network (instead of consolidated under the thumb of a few big corporations or governments). Save the open web by switching to your own “personal cloud.” Links & Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Nextcloud Matomo Gitea Mastodon Posture (in private beta) DigitalOcean Netlify FastMail SmugMug Taking control of your internet Casey Neistat was using his phone WAY too much