Re:The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse
by lolinder on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:22PM
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> if they did control the servers an ISP change would be effortless.
I don't know where in the world you are, but I want to live there. Changing my ISP is far more intimidating to me than migrating a database and a few DNS records.
> We should praise organizations that actually seek to normalize control over servers, not praise relying on yet another "fully managed" service.
What would be enough to satisfy you? A VPS on AWS? A VPS on a smaller provider? A dedicated box at Hetzner? Or would it have to be a machine that they built from scratch and can physically access?
I don't know where in the world you are, but I want to live there. Changing my ISP is far more intimidating to me than migrating a database and a few DNS records.
> We should praise organizations that actually seek to normalize control over servers, not praise relying on yet another "fully managed" service.
What would be enough to satisfy you? A VPS on AWS? A VPS on a smaller provider? A dedicated box at Hetzner? Or would it have to be a machine that they built from scratch and can physically access?