Does Privacy Guides have a stance on self-hosting?

Linking [Request] Guide for Nextcloud self-hosting at home

We see here once more a request on doing some guidance on a recommendation we have because people clearly do not know how to do this correctly (understandably)

I am firmly against making recommendations for self-hosted solutions like Nextcloud without proper requirements and guidance on how to configure it. If we want such thing I would like to have it have it’s own space on the website; the self-hoster corner. It is not something that is feasible for everyone and I wouldn’t want it to seem that it is.

The other acceptable option would just to remove selfhosted things from the recommendations. I am not against that either. It is a lot of work to guide people on how to maintain and it requires quite some knowledge from us and the reader. I find it more important to like our motto once was “spread privacy to the masses” than to educate people how to do self-hosting.

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