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chris martens

@krusynth
also, ok, so, i agree with this sentiment broadly, but alternatives are so poorly supported that i have trouble wanting to voice it because i have no good answers to “so where do I put it, then?” for folks who don’t want to run their own servers (which, frankly, includes me, even though I have the skills to be able to)

do you have resources you’d respond with?

14 Jun 2023 at 17:32 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hci.social
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chris martens

@krusynth
other costs to consider:
- hard drives cost money, time to move data between them, not as reliable as the redundant backups you get with a cloud service
- rented server space costs money and time to maintain

14 Jun 2023 at 17:36 | Open on hci.social
chris martens

@krusynth also i’m genuinely just not sure what you even *mean* by “the open web” here. Open in the sense of “publicly available” seems counter to what a lot of these services are *for*, which is maintaining access permissions for private data

14 Jun 2023 at 17:37 | Open on hci.social
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