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> At some point we really need to think if this is the web we want, You think we have a say in this?
by nuker 10mo ago
> At some point we really need to think if this is the web we want,
You think we have a say in this?
- louismerlin 10mo agoYou have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.
- reassess_blind 10mo agoIf you need DDoS mitigation then you essentially need to rely on a third party. Every third party will have inevitable downtime. For many it’s just whether you’d prefer to be down while everyone else is down or not.
- rwky 10mo agoA lot of business would accept the rare downtime from Cloudflare in exchange for the DDoS protection. If the internet was always a nice place we wouldn't need Cloudflare and similar :(
- quaintdev 10mo agoYou also have the power to not pay money to big tech
- squigz 10mo agoThe HN crowd in particular absolutely has a say in this, given the amount of engineering leads, managers, and even just regular programmers/admins/etc that frequent here - all of whom contribute to making these decisions.