Most people don’t care about these things. I believe the mainstream people need to understand that you can own your information. The problem is more and more people don’t care about their privacy and there’s a whole generation that has been so accustomed to sharing everything with the corpos.

Most people mix privscy with anonymity rather than a “need to know basis”. Hell, my neighbors still say “I have nothing to hide” but that’s not that point and a better response is needed for the Fediverse and its future.

Maybe link to a site with a list of instances and their locale?

Home Assistant is a great platform to build on and their assist feature is amazing. Definitely worth the effort.

Thanks for the information. I just signed up using a public matrix but will look into bridge as well and possibly use Oracle free tier to set something up instead of on my homelab. Thanks again!!

Wow I had a whole message written to ask for information and here you lay it out so perfectly. Now I’m in paralysis mode though and can’t decide if I want to self host…

If you have any tips, resources, or a simple breakdown of what I should focus on, I’d really appreciate it! Thanks!