> Solana was launched in 2020 by Solana Labs [...].
It was founded by a single, corporate entity, that continues to govern the project's direction...
> The blockchain has experienced several major outages, was subjected to a hack, and a class action lawsuit was filed against the platform.
...was subject to major disturbances...
> Solana's total market cap was US$55 billion in January 2022. However, by the end of 2022, this had fallen to around $3 billion following the bankruptcy of FTX.
...and meanwhile lost 95% of its value following the bankruptcy of an unrelated party.
Read the entire comment thread under the original article. Try to comprehend the actual issues that people are struggling with. Explain how is Solana going to make self-hosting less painful. Why do we choose to self-host? Privacy, simplicity, ownership/sovereignty, cost? What issues are we struggling with, that better technology could ease? Maintenance burden, proper backups? So what value does it bring to self-hosters?
Can I run my calendar and contacts sync on top of Solana? What happens if my private key gets leaked - everyone gets to know when exactly I went to the cinema with my partner? Privacy - bust.
What about email? I need to point the MX records at something the rest of the Internet knows how to connect to - what's the point of a decentralised datastore if I still have to mess around with hosting a publicly reachable node? Simplicity - bust.
What happens when the network experiences another outage, lawsuit, or market crash? Ownership and sovereignty - bust.
What about storage - I currently need ca 6TB for personal backups - am I going to upload it all to the blockchain? What's the cost of storing 6TB on-chain, just once? Cost - bust.
What's the story with maintenance? Assuming there's some magical fairy dust that makes most of the fundamental problems go away, is running your personal infra on top of a cryptocurrency-backed blockchain going to make you sleep better at night? What's stopping someone from mounting a 50%+1 attack the next time the coin loses 95% of its value overnight?
Is there a single thing that I use a home server / VPS for today, that Solana can do better?
