12 points andros 5 hours ago 3 comments
iamnothere 32 minutes ago | parent
The problem with small systems is that they go away when the maintainer gets bored, dies, moves to a new country, gets too busy with life, etc. And they give the owner an immense amount of control, which isn’t always good in a time of declining trust and increasing hostility. At some point you get tired of migrating or rebuilding.
These days I don’t really like hosting anything that isn’t either under my own control or on a decentralized system.
andros 22 minutes ago | parent
This can happen, even in open-source projects. The key is that not everyone has the knowledge or the money to maintain them. These mini-federations make the Internet much richer and more accessible.
tcfhgj 5 minutes ago | parent
I don't buy it.
First of all, I don't use GMail or Outlook for E-Mail.
What would E-Mail/messengers/telco look like in small without federation?