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Re:Google Outage in Europe by kertoip_1 on Friday November 12, 2021 @10:40AM (#29200343)
The question is: should we trust small, underfunded, hobbyist servers more than large corporations that have a money-driven reason to maintain high quality of services?
Re:Google Outage in Europe by riffic on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:04PM (#29202503)
for the average end user: heck no.

for those with budgets to hire server administrators (or pay for third-party managed services)? yes.

second category includes almost anyone with a large following like institutional users.

hell the incumbent social media service operators can white-label their existing software and sell this as a service.

Re:Google Outage in Europe by deepstack on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:28AM (#29250371)
Not really many open source project such as nextcloud, mattermost are easy to host your self, or the hosting provider provide it as an app.
Re:Google Outage in Europe by fragmede on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:15PM (#29203388)
Yes. Like some sort of workspace? Google could make one. I wonder what they'd call it?
Re:Google Outage in Europe by scrollaway on Friday November 12, 2021 @03:17PM (#29204043)
I’m sure Google wonders the same thing, given that it’s had like five different names over the years.