While I’m all for decentralization, I don’t really see a reasonable way around this. Someone has to manage the infrastructure, and at a certain scale that’s going to be large corporations. However, as long as these services continue to be interchangeable and unlinked to the fediverse, I don’t see this as too serious of an issue.
@scarecrw@hedge@useful_idiot This, as long as you are not vendor locked it’s fine. I use cloudflare, but I’d have no problems migrating to a different provider tomorrow
This is quite the conundrum that the fediverse requires corporations like fastly/cachefly/cloudflare to stay afloat/responsive at scale.
While I’m all for decentralization, I don’t really see a reasonable way around this. Someone has to manage the infrastructure, and at a certain scale that’s going to be large corporations. However, as long as these services continue to be interchangeable and unlinked to the fediverse, I don’t see this as too serious of an issue.
@scarecrw @hedge @useful_idiot This, as long as you are not vendor locked it’s fine. I use cloudflare, but I’d have no problems migrating to a different provider tomorrow
This is true, It is much safer to rely on providers at the protocol layer vs the application layer.
Not to mention the companies that own the backbone…?