The article, and many of the posts here, seem like a baroque expansion of this (in)famous original response to the Dropbox launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/

The article, and many of the posts here, seem like a baroque expansion of this (in)famous original response to the Dropbox launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863. I can get off Dropbox by... writing my own shell scripts? What's sad is that increasingly people are feeling that the price for these easy, convenient services is too high, in terms of privacy loss, data lock-in, and so on. Are we going back to the early 00s, when the tech-savvy people would roll their own solutions and everyone else... just has to lump it? Are hackers just being too idealistic? Or do organizations like Signal show a possible way forward?