I mean, I can link to the documentations but, that’s literally it. That’s the entire thing.

https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_started/install_on/remote_server

You can install Yunohost on Debian. It’s just a single command.

Sure, you could say that

Not “could”. It is.

Why would you even point out

When you say “hosting in a cloud” vs selfhosting, I think you mean creating an account on a hosted service. Or using something like PikaPods or Fedihost or other managed hosting service. Because once again, hosting in a VPS is selfhosting.

dropping SMS support because of engineering costs

Who told you it was because of “engineering costs”?

https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

You realize hosting on a VPS is still selfhosting? And my comment was about selfhosting?

I didn’t say it was “hard”. I said it requires specialized knowledge. Which it does. And which you’ve not disproven in any way.

I don’t understand what that has to do with this conversation

I’ve tried lots of them

redlib is always broken too.

I’m not, it’s been this way for a long time.

I hear there’s this new thing called PieFed that’s pretty cool…

The functionality is a bit iffy and has been since they killed the API but it’s better than nothing!

offering me end-to-end encrypted chat

No one - not even X - can access or read your messages

This key is then stored on X’s servers

So…they’re just blatantly lying?

Cool?

You’re just wrong…

Self hosting requires an immense amount of specialized knowledge and time…

Only site that got me was Riverside ☹️

I love finding new software that doesn’t give you a fucking inkling of what it is or does…

I mean there’s good reason for that but MacOS is kinda in between Windows and Linux, in terms of usability and shitfuckery.

And Mac.