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Why can’t a non-profit with a community board run these types of services? Like Wikipedia.
by afpx 3y ago
Why can’t a non-profit with a community board run these types of services? Like Wikipedia.
- sanderjd 3y agoThey can. People just have to give up higher pay to work on that instead. But I think this basically exists and is called indieweb?
- sph 3y agoThis is the order of preference to store my personal data (i.e email, files, etc.): 1. Self-hosted by me 2. Stored by a for-profit company I am paying 3. Stored by a megacorp 4. Stored by a non-profit -- 2 and 3 have an economic incentive not to lose my data, and have money to pay for decent engineers. 4 is basically having my data stored on a crappy Core2 Duo server under a staircase, managed by a teenager
- adql 3y agoI'd agree on that about e-mail but honestly wouldn't care for chat, as long as I can keep logs locally. > 4 is basically having my data stored on a crappy Core2 Duo server under a staircase, managed by a teenager ... isn't 1 the same then ? Aside from teenager part
- dopidopHN 3y agoSee my comment, but I have some terrible trenched stories with how non profit run service. A last one : I was ask to pry open the personal windows of a freshly dead employee because apparently a bunch of critical informations were stored on it ( payroll, bunch of passwords to Linux boxes running stuff ) I refused, then asked to get permission of family. Then I learned that the plan was to basically reclaim that personal laptop of a dead employee because migrating stuff was too hard. I told them I was busy. I think they stole that laptop containing private correspondance and still use it today. It’s a NGO you heard off. Running on most continents. My take : IT and security are a distant thought in those places and you need strong top down directions and training to enforce basic hygiene
- tpxl 3y ago1 and 4 have an incentive not to keep your data, munch it into AI/ML, sell it to advertisers, governments, anyone who asks. 2 and 3 have absolutely no incentive not to lose your data. When was the last time any company got seriously hurt by a data breach? Hell, even password managers lose data and keep chugging on.
- dopidopHN 3y agoThe teenager is now 38 and has moved states 3 time. But still has the full set of credentials on his personal laptop. Oh wait. He don’t anymore . since he switched laptop and don’t care anymore, but weirdly nobody made backup because their is a sense that this once teenager ought to keep things running, somehow. ( inspired by real life even. )
- kornhole 3y agoWikipedia is still a centralized service. It is better than some others, but I can see countless examples of spooks editing the pages of important people or issues to tell the desired narrative. Many of us do not bother viewing or citing Wikipedia on some topics.