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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The thing is, people often switch providers due to poor network speeds, overprovisioned resources, and outdated hardware. Budget hosts use older hardware and whatnot to keep prices down, and premium hosts use newer hardware to justify a higher price.

If regulations come in that cap certain costs, it’ll likely devolve into a race to the bottom per unit, with larger companies generally winning because they can get better deals on hardware due to hulk pricing. I imagine it could kill segmentation as well.

Maybe it would be okay. I’m just not very confident in my government to craft sensible policy that doesn’t just benefit the largest lobbies, as in, the largest providers.

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