Gregory's Server
@bnewbold @cwebber @Claire @eramdam
my counterpoint to that is, like trying to run your own version of the architecture for e.g. 11ty, it locks things into a scale and architecture that requires full time devs.
what people need for "'credible exit" is a dead simple system.
something that a small, non-venture-capital, organization can reasonably host. think cohost's budget.
going for "you of course need 8 full time engineers" level complicated isn't decentralized.
needing a full time rails sysadmin isn't great in mastodon's favor, but it's getting better.
this is similar to saying "static site generators and hosting are viable alternatives to WP" when wordpress is easy enough for people to spin up and use, and there's a viable ecosystem for it, for newbs to run.
WP has a lot of inefficient resources when all they need is a static CMS, but it got the deployment story right.
@risottobias @cwebber @Claire @eramdam
I'm not sure I understand 11ty; is that https://www.11ty.dev/?
for me credible exit means being able to replace the largest operator, who is indexing the full network. if the network is large, such an index is going to be large! spinning up a cozy/indie/small network is good, and important, but the full-network thing is also important in society.