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Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting in pole-position for much of it.
  • boonhet@lemm.ee
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    17 hours ago

    self hosted means hosted by yourself

    A lot of selfhosters share with family. I’m not gonna make my wife spin up her own servers when she can use mine.

    • brrt
      1·
      17 hours ago

      And what would you call your wife in this scenario? A selfhoster? Or a user of a service hosted by boonhet?

      She’s not using a selfhosted service, she’s using a boonhet-hosted service. Because she has no control over the service or her data.