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Counterpoint: this is the reality we on HN have been warming everyone about for years. This is no different from Cloudflare shutting down 8ch or AWS deciding n

Counterpoint: this is the reality we on HN have been warming everyone about for years. This is no different from Cloudflare shutting down 8ch or AWS deciding not to host you anymore. We’ve been saying for years that we’re over-centralizing our internet infrastructure and that just a few bad actors have outsized influence on what can remain hosted and what they want to pull the plug on. If anything, this is good because companies might finally wake up and realize self-hosting is in their own best interests.

rvz 5y ago
Well this is the sort of thing I have tried to warn them on and obviously when it affects them you can just see the same outrage right in front of you. Just look at what happened to youtube-dl. [0] The private platform argument applies here too, also defeating the decentralised purpose of Git. Had they self-hosted with their own GitLab instance, this wouldn't have happened. Self-hosting was done years ago is the way to over-come this. Now anyone can get their website, business terminated by any of these companies by anyone who seems to not like your website. (Even if they try to bring it down themselves.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911