Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
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Most cloud hosts aren’t sniffing around in your VMs/containers
You would be surprised, especially the ones in the five eyes countries or whatever.
As long as the people using your home server aren’t messaging people or chatting in rooms from other home servers (aka you’ve disabled federation) and you can trust your cloud provider not to snoop around, yea, it’s a fairly decent solution. Even with disk encryption like LUKS or your file system’s built-in encryption, if your cloud provider wanted, they could just dump the memory of your VM and find the password/encryption keys that way.
Even if it’s open-source and free software, unless they’re hosting it themselves, Loomio still has access/control over all your data. Also, hosting it yourself is just much cheaper. Looking at their website, the cheapest plan they have is still $300/year and you can only have 30 members, which is outrageous in my opinion. You can get a cheap cloud server with decent storage space that you could host it yourself on for like $10/month and have unlimited users.
It has been posted: https://hexbear.net/post/3827015
I wouldn’t really worry about it, I got mine from Aliexpress and they’ve been going strong for a couple of years. Everything on every other web store is drop shipped from Aliexpress these days anyway. If you have pets, try to keep them out of reach/away from the ground so they don’t chew on the little strands of wire that the lights are attached to and you will be fine!
