Yeah. Someday, in the ruins of the world, you may come across the decrepit remains of a man, held adrift only by the sheer momentum of that one time he was near The Big Win.
"Come 'ere m'lad," he'll tell you, gesturing vaguely with one rotting arm at the debris of human settlements, "help me dig for my hard drive of lost fortune tokens."
I would never want to rely on corporations' willingness to support those things. Corpos should, however, be heavily taxed so that the actual state would have money for those things.
In an ideal world (hey, let me dream!) those funds wouldn't instead be siphoned into defense budgets.
You said it yourself — you're new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.
Sure, you won't immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com's plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.
If you're like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn't be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?
I dunno, over the course what, six months? A year? And since there's been an influx of Twitter users they're probably frantically liking every old follow/er they see to recreate their network.
Also, on Bluesky likes influence the algorithm more than it would on the fediverse, so who can blame them for gauging the ecosystem?
It's just the inevitable exploitation of any word that van be randomly put next to "economy". It's a bullshit con is why.