Sandstorm should have really caught on. We need to make self hosting drop dead simple so that even non-technical people can do it. The power of these mega-tech companies can only be whittled down if we take collective, well thought out action. And it is not just about tackling power imbalances. Owning your own data is a fundamental aspect of our digital lives which ought to have become simple and natural, given Moore's Law and the phenomenal device capabilities in recent years, yet somehow we are going the other way. Even as our devices become ever more capable (hardware wise), the software is moving to ever more to the Cloud and we're being locked out of the full capacities of our devices except in the narrow realm of media consumption.