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BTW I run a 16 core home server with 10 tb of storage accessible over Comcast home edition for the cost of electricity. At the risk of sounding old and idealistic, isn't this what the Internet was supposed to be? Isn't this where the idealists among Web3 proponents are headed?

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Heh, I'm writing an essay on this topic currently. It's so strange that Cloud is worth a trillion dollars, web3/crypto is worth as much, and self-hosting is... completely obscure? With multiple global satellite internet services coming soon - do we need crypto to be distributed? Can't we just... use the internet?

I don't think you sound old and idealistic, but I am _for sure_ old and idealistic, so...

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