An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy

Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by eptcyka on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:08PM (#33153145)

There's Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, AWS and Googles CDNs and what else? To be able to serve an everything app to enough people for it to be relevant, the web platform, whilst clearly having a lot more choice than mobile or PC platforms, is not necessarily the panacea of liberty.

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by bombcar on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:48PM (#33154330)

You can serve the thousands or tens of thousands of users without any of those (it's harder, and more expensive, but it's not impossible).

And once you're bigger than that, you start having other options available to you if you must avoid those.

Especially if you stay away from video, it's not insanely hard. HN itself is two servers, IIRC.

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by eptcyka on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:52PM (#33154388)

HN is not an everything app. If you want to serve images and preserve UX across a country like the states, you'll want a CDN.

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