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Woohoo, I'm no longer a paranoid delusional for not wanting to store all my documents and photos in Google's Cloud. I'm a trendsetter!
Joking aside, having local data control while also having the ability to share and collaborate online would be nice. Most businesses won't have a need for it. But, for individuals, not being locked into to a particular provider is a good thing. Of course, it will come at the cost of convenience, it always does. And that's a cost many people won't be willing to pay.
Quite the opposite @sylver_dragon@lemmy.world . I went to self-hosting everything precisely because I wanted to de-Google and de-cloud. Big Cloud proves over and over again that it lacks the responsibility, accountability, and motivation to take care of my identity. They only care about how they can make me their product.
Businesses who have a clue and a budget actually also have a need for local data control IMHO. Look at the hacking case with M365. And there's decent local collaboration software too - wikis, things like syncthing, some of the newer 0 trust stuff.
Let's face it, the thing the cloud is good for is serving up completely public websites.