Concerning, bc it indicates that the extent of the concentration of power in the hands of a few hyperscalers is way less widely understood than I’d assumed. Which bodes poorly for our ability to craft reality-based strategies capable of contesting this concentration & solving the real problem. 2/

I don't think you have a clear understanding of what you're talking about, and it might be fun for you to look a bit more deeply into how TOR works and its dependencies.

I don't think you have a clear understanding of this space, but I hope you have a good time digging in and learning more.

We use multiple cloud providers, yes.

No, because no modern and useful comms platform provides only text messaging. And if your platform doesn't provide normative features and functionality, people won't use it. And if they don't use it--even if you do--you can't use it either. The network effect rules communications effectiveness.

I'm sorry if it landed harsh. First, I don't think not knowing things is inherently bad or shameful--it's where learning starts, etc. Second, there's a misunderstanding here, whoever is expressing it: decentralization at the level of a protocol--ActivityPub or w/e else--is NOT the same thing as decentralization of infra. People running mastodon instances, or Matrix servers, or other fedi systems, are also in most cases leasing infrastructure from hyperscalers to do so.

Decentralization at the level of protocol--in Mastodon's case via ActivityPub--does not mean decentralization at the level of infrastructural dependence.

true, but at least some of their interlocutors almost certainly 'rely on big tech' OS's, so they still need to care.