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Many people here advise to self-host. Buy a Hetzner server, install Ghost / Forgejo / NextCloud / whatever. Understandable, though I have problems with that approach, namely, what happens when you skip a year.

But also there's an ongoing AI problem. After stealing all the books and pictures, they moved on to disrupt another public good: open source servers. There is daily ongoing DDoS on every server you know, including personal hosts. Self-hosted got more expensive.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/