Elena Rossini ⁂  

Unpopular opinion: the silver lining in server outages is that they pull the curtain & reveal some hard truths about who is really behind some services we use... especially stuff we think are alternatives to Big Tech (spoiler: maybe they aren't).

Case in point: last year's #Microsoft outage took out #DuckDuckGo (mashable.com/article/microsoft).

Today's Amazon's AWS outage took out #Signal in some areas: mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115

Oh my, is this time to convince my family & friends to move to Matrix? 🥲

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@_elena Just wait until you discover the whole "FOSS hosted on Microsoft Github" wormhole! e.g., DeltaChat

Microsoft uses GitHub as a means to steal FOSS code snippets without following their licensing requirements for its AI, COPILOT, which also feeds ChatGPT.

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