Mastodawn

Every server deployment on Amazon's AWS, Google's GCP and MS Azure feeds the beast.

Not only do they reinforce pathways of centralisation in the topological sense, but they also invest in US supremacy geopolitically. That supremacy now openly includes a theocratic & racist, war-mongering & imperialist movement.

Every server you spin up at home or on a smaller DC, like every abandoned Google, Twitter or FB account, slows the beast down.

The 3D's:

Depopulate. Defund. Disempower.

#bigtech

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Alaric Snell-Pym Feb 27

@JulianOliver also I can tell you - from bitter experience over the past months - that AWS is actually a terrible hosting platform, hard to work with, slow to deploy, and difficult to secure; and I've heard people say that Google Cloud and Azure are even worse. Dunno about the Oracle one, don't know anybody who's used it, but given its provenance I'd be absolutely shocked if it was any better.

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Alaric Snell-Pym

@JulianOliver meanwhile, the little players who actually have to work to get and retain customers have, from the three I've worked with, been a dream to work with.