It’s funny to see open source and tech geeks discussing @moxie@twitter.com’s “People don’t want to run their own servers” and claiming that he “doesn’t get it.” It shows nicely everything that’s wrong with this bubble. No, he actually gets it, and you still don’t.

@WPalant I don't know. How many people have a Wifi router that has a file/print server built in? Many have DDNS and VPN servers, too. A simple wizard letting people turn on the server features they want is pretty great! Getting OpenVPN working on my latest router was crazy easy like that.

@adam How many people have ever touched the configuration of their Wifi router? Yes, they are powerful beasts these days. But every feature beyond the very basic functionality is massively underused. It’s not a coincidence that internet providers want their routers to autoconfigure – plug them in and they just work.

@WPalant Ah, that's true. I do know alot of normal people who want more control though. And literally every wifi router has a web server in it (that's how you configure it).

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