ujetin

I deleted my AWS account yesterday. It is obviously catered towards large organisations - very complicated tools and pricing that I couldn't really fit into my use case. I tried to just shut down the services that were using money but wasn't even sure I had found them all so I just closed the whole account.

I don't even like the idea of any of this stuff. I want to run my own little raspberry pi server or whatever, it seems much more fun and startupish than aws, which appears to be all of the corporate stuff I left (AIMs etc). This is funny because I remember AWS being thought of as great for "just experimenting with stuff".

I share the same ideals as mentioned in this article, but implementation is what matters. The person who wrote this article references mastodon as an example of the small web, but just looking at mastodon, you can see that is not what happens. Mastodon has a couple of very large hosts with thousands or hundreds of thousands of users, exactly the same as the big web that the author describes. This is because people think "well, why go to the trouble of setting all of this stuff up myself, I will just create an account on one of the existing hosts", and then you just have the big web again.