Gregory's Server
If your job is working on open source and you don't need all the stuff that Google etc provide, awesome. I get it, running only free stuff is really cool, I do it myself. For me.
But that's based on my skills, the things. I care about. It's kind of my hobby so to speak and it oftentimes means that I have to dick around with wonky solutions. Which *I* am okay with.
But demanding that of real people in the world? People who just need a simple thing to do a shared spreadsheet for some gift for a nursery school teacher leaving should have the whole "Let's use Glorp!" - "No Glorp is run by a transphobe. Maybe Snoot?" - "Snoot is to hard to run, because it demands an old version of Zonk" - "Could we set up a mailing list?" dance? Get fucking real.
@tante Facebook’s biggest strength is its events system, which is unmatched before or since.
Even in the enterprise world the #1 piece of software I have to beat isn’t Snowflake or Oracle or AWS.
It’s Excel.
Simple, widespread beats everything. Supporting simple doesn’t mean supporting big tech.