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~maya

Congratulations for figuring it out!

I felt somewhere in between humbled and humiliated by my own ignorance when I started self-hosting stuff (a Pleroma server, then Mastodon proper, then it exploded from there). I needed my boyfriend to teach me a *lot* and that was embarrassing even though he was lovely about it -- I mean, I'm a computer professional and I ... just ... didn't know any of it.

But knowing -- you feel so freed! It really opened my eyes up to what the internet really *is* underneath. It was a cuckoo clock that's magic until you understand the mechanism.

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~zampano wrote:

Thanks, and I like your description of it. I'm currently working on moving my family over to Nextcloud Talk as our chat service (rather than text message or discord). My wife and mom are on board already, so just need to get our daughter and maybe my brother while I'm at it.

Liberate that data!