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Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.
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I actually think of this often, if more and more people self host and go to Linux etc the big bois are gonna crack down and make it illegal, or infiltrate distros and repos with bad actors.
2035 bingo card: Linux and a nas makes you a terrorist. In America, this will surely happen.
2026: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist
Phew! Lucky my home server runs FreeBSD then....
With it having a logo of a devil (demon? daemon?) you must be even more eviler!
I know right
I'm safe with TempleOS.
Or ... they'll just buy up all the hardware (including all production capacity for future hardware), making it prohibitively expensive for people to buy their own hardware.
That and try to pass laws forbidding the continued usage of older computers, since a lot of older tech can still work with Linux well enough.
When they make Linux illegal then only outlaws will use it.
Yeah the freedom to vote with your wallet in a capitalist market is just an illusion. You have no choice but to do what they say and I don't think we can self-host and open-source our way out of it. Needs systemic change.