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A comment on Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019). Parent comment

Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by bccdee on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:22PM (#25951684)
That's not true. There's no reason why hosting a server should be hard. This is a UX issue, and an eminently solvable one at that. Imagine a self-hosted, easy-to-install Heroku-style server platform with a public repository for application images.

It's not hard because it needs to be hard; it's hard because no one has invested the time and money to make it easy.

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Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by villasv on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:01AM (#25978485)
It doesn't matter how much you invest in making it easier. It will never be as easy as doing nothing, which is what the competing alternative provides.
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Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by kimmeld on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:46PM (#25953100)
It’s hard the same reason I can’t put a ton of solar panels on my roof and pump large amounts of electricity into the grid. The upstream infrastructure is not sized appropriately. It’s not that running a server is hard but that most internet infrastructure is designed to consume and not produce.
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