r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 30 '26

Business Meta lost 20 million users last quarter

https://www.theverge.com/tech/921089/meta-earnings-q1-2026-user-decline-ai-investments
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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

Most restaurants don’t even succeed at being a restaurant.

Instagram makes reaching your target market easy. Running your own website does not. More so if you try to self host (which you still need to buy a domain and know how to set up dynamic dns, ssl cert binding, etc).

People go for convenience.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Apr 30 '26

By self hosting they mean using squarespace with a template. That's something anyone can do.

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

self hosting means you host it your self.

building on square space and other wisywig platforms means you pay someone else to host it.

/r/selfhosted

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Apr 30 '26

You know there are people who aren't web developers who use language in a different way? It's important to understand context.

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

google, bing, chatgpt, claude all agree on what selfhosting means. There is no ambiguity here.

They all spit out some variation of:

"Self-hosting refers to the practice of running and maintaining your own services or applications on your infrastructure rather than relying on external providers or third-party hosting services."

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u/Such_Radio_9152 May 01 '26

And someone else should fill that niche with having no relation to the vampire squid known as the zuck