Is there a way that users could cohost an instance? If there isn’t, I think that would be a great feature to implement. Having a situation where instances slow down or even occasionally disconnect will be hard on any community. I feel like it could eventually cause people to prefer using instances owned by large and well funded groups instead of passionate users.

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    Amazon is definitely not the only one doing cloud infrastructure. I really don’t think we’d be pissing anyone off.

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      1 year ago

      Probably, but it depends. Only a fool would ignore an easy opportunity to prevent the entry of a new competitor. It’s not like we’re some big company with real monetary power of our own. We’re easy to strangle in about a million different ways, just more tech dweeb stuff that only internet losers should like. Or so it could be easily spun.

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        1 year ago

        Lol as a tech dweeb / internet loser I’d like to see them try that argument. That’s why we’re here in the first place!

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          Yeah, us. But if we ever want to wrest any kind of market share from big tech, that won’t be good enough anymore.