Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it's somehow fine.

Cloud storage is fine for your offsite copy as long as you encrypt your data before uploading it. The problem is that a lot of people are using it as their only copy.

That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

The way things develop, you can't be sure that you are not banned on all accounts at the same time for political reasons.

Personally I don’t think the tradeoff is worth while. I put nothing remotely personal on other peoples computers. I’d rather lose everything. But it is not actually that big a problem, my brother has a backup that I update once a month in his safe in his house, and I have his. Should be good enough.

But in that case, it's not a migration to cloud, but just an addition of the cloud as a resource

I'm sure I'm stating the obvious, but you can do both. I backup my important self-hosted data to the cloud (B2, in my case). I also have a colo that I backup to.

Cloud storage? Oh, that's the wrong mindset. With the "agi", you won't ever need to store data, because everything you need can be generated on-demand /j

Now I will be careful if someone wants to show me their personal cloud