Hi notcensored02, thanks for the comment, and I get where you are coming from. But, I don't think it was ever free to host your own services since we have to pay to buy computers to use as servers, electricity, internet connection and since the ISPs broke the internet, IP addresses. In some sense, the problem was companies starting to offer these things FOC except we didn't realize the true cost of it then.
I make youtube videos empowering people, showing them how to do many things that might otherwise cost them money if they didn't know better.
The last few videos I made were
1. How to download, decrypt, and OCR (searchable text) books from the internet archive using Debian Linux and python3.
2. How to run your own Jitsi Meet voip WebRTC voice chat web server which allows for end-to-end-encryption.
3. How to download published papers from scihub because they don't actually cost $40 each for a 2MB pdf file.
I think people forgot the spirit of the internet, and I won't allow it to be forgotten. The internet is not television 2.0. It's already way too commercialized as it is. People are trying to charge money for ambient audio sleep apps now. It needs to be discouraged.
----------- This website continues to delete my comments. It's one of the most locked down, censored websites I've ever seen, and I've been here since 1995. Here's what I ACTUALLY said.
Hi kovac. This is the internet. You don't pay for things. What the hell are you doing?
You guys need to stop paying for crap. This stuff has been historically free. With more and more people paying for things that have been free, pretty soon they'll be trying to charge for BROWSERS. Hi. KNOCK IT OFF.
