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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoThat saves the service, but the communities are still dead. The problem is the single source of failure.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
There is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.
Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.
Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Sure, but that analogy only makes sense when talking about real estate. With a distributed system, there isn’t really a limit to what you can store, as long as someone wants to store it.
If someone can just take something down that you value, that sucks. You should never be forced to preserve something you don’t want to, but you should also be free to preserve something you value. Communities should come and go naturally, not because someone decided to stop paying for a server.