I fully agree with the points the author makes about self hosting. You’re not liberating anybody and you’re just creating more obstacles for sharing data.

Sure, if your user count equals one, then go ahead, but as someone who has self hosted for 2 decades, trust me, you’re only making it harder. As soon as you want to share data or collaborate on data, you’re forcing another person to download and use a specific app, and you’ll be managing a bunch of users.

Add to that the fact that the internet is not a friendly place, and you’ll really cannot just take a lax stance to security. Everything needs to be top notch and patched.

Personally I’ve long since moved to public cloud. It doesn’t matter where my data is hosted as long as I have a backup of it, and everything stored in the cloud is encrypted (where applicable) before uploading it.

As for the didspaces product, isn’t that just what Resilio Sync and Syncthing did a decade ago ?