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@growfediverse
> your social platform could get shuttered!
Having ridden the bleeding edge since the early days of the web, I've had a fair few services disappear out from under me, both community-hosted and corporate-hosted. I agree with you that the corporate ones aren't immune to being shut down, but I have to admit it happens less, and often with more warning.
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@growfediverse
> your social platform could get shuttered!
Having ridden the bleeding edge since the early days of the web, I've had a fair few services disappear out from under me, both community-hosted and corporate-hosted. I agree with you that the corporate ones aren't immune to being shut down, but I have to admit it happens less, and often with more warning.
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Reliability of hosting makes people more hesitant to do more than dabble in a new service, which does limit adoption. If we can solve that, we've got something to offer that's more useful to people than proprietary services. Ways to do that could include building community institutions that make hosting more sustainable, or by making accounts and data less dependent on SPoF hosts, or both.
