A very unexpected upside of self hosting your o...

A very unexpected upside of self hosting your own communication and social media is that when you travel to china everything slill works even over the Hotel Wifi without a VPN. I use PieFed, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube, and some more. Yesterday I wanted to call my Family in Germany and tried WhatsApp, Signal to have a christmas call with them. but nothing worked, the only thing which di was Matrix…