@gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks The other thing about the cloud, is that the cloud is the definition of "normie friendly".
Which do you think sold more to normies, Chromebook ads or the meme worthy "server in the house" book Microsoft made?
The latter comes off as something the FSF would have put out on their website as marketing material only to get mocked by commenters on The Register/ars Technica (I'm not even joking), and only diehard nerds bought or built at home Windows Home Servers to do the same idea of a backup. (📎3)
RE: @gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks Big tech was the US government "contracting" it out to a different company so they could say it wasn't them.
It's not just interest rates and "free services", we've had a 10 year dark age imposed by smartphone brainrot and a "competency crisis" as the news media will say. As you're seeing with a fedi instance that has been up for a long time going down because the DB is fucked, running a site of the scale of even shitposter.club requires more than just some NEET/nerd treating it as a weekend project.
Suddenly, you'll see your instance shut down or picrel while someone who uses Twitter never deals with this, ever. They might be forced to fork out cash to keep using it, but as long as they don't push too hard like Gab did they'll stick around. (📎1)
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