I would love to see servers become easier to host. Personally I enjoy hosting my own services, its super rewarding and I've learned an absolute ton about computers and networking.
I think making it easy to host reliable and secure servers we would see more people jumping in. Maybe not huge amounts but enough to change the ecosystem.
> I've learned an absolute ton about computers and networking.
I think that’s the problem. Most people’s goal is not to learn a ton about computers and networking, it’s to accomplish some other task. These days rarely is running your own server the easiest way to accomplish most tasks, even if it is an option. It’s usually easier to use someone else’s server, and into running your own is easier than using someone else’s, most people will continue to do use someone else’s.
In my opinion, learning this stuff enables you to accomplish other tasks easier and more effectively. Since learning about this stuff, I can now stand up any self hosted services that I want with relative ease. That is the advantage to deeper learning in tech
On top of this, I also better understand the privacy implications of using other people's services. It helps me operate in our current tech ecosystem far more effectively
>I would love to see servers become easier to host.
Unfortunately blockchain, which is what people are trying to push as part of the decentralization, is making servers harder to host.
You can run a Bittorrent server or an IPFS node on a $50 Raspberry Pi. But if you want to spin up a Filecoin node, you need a server that has at least 8 CPU cores, at least 32 GB of RAM and enough SSD space to contain the chain that's expanding at a rate of 38 GiB per day. The listed minimum requirements for the mining server are even worse - at least 8 CPU cores, at least 128 GB of RAM and a good chunk of NVMe SSD (1 TB preferably), with a recommendation for a "powerful GPU" to boot. The only sensible option is the Lite node that can run on a measly dual-core with 2 GB of RAM - which can only operate on such low hardware requirements because the lite nodes do not actually contain the blockchain.
I think making it easy to host reliable and secure servers we would see more people jumping in. Maybe not huge amounts but enough to change the ecosystem.