Even if you pay them, your privacy is gone. Any part of you placed in someone else's hands makes privacy a joke
The main reason is because the vast majority of people do not care or lack foresight of where that trend has been taking us for over 17 years. Surely you have friends or family who do not care. I do.
I'm fine with this trend.
Servers aren't free and engineers aren't cheap. Online products need to make money in our world.
If you're not paying them they need something to sell to someone else.
Servers aren't free but it's damn cheap if you don't bloat up your backend
Throwing more bodies at a situation does NOT solve the situation faster or more efficiently; seriously, this shit is the most remedial, 101-level shit in pretty much any field where man-hours are a measuring metric.
That's not what I said or even remotely implied.
If you want a good back end that isn't bloated you can't use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they're doing.
It's a fight I'm constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was "self documenting".
These contractors weren't paid to care - I don't blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.
But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps
says a thing
"no I didn't say that thing"
average day on feddit 🙄
optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive
um acktually you can't build services faster by hiring tons of people 🤓🤓
Reading comprehension: you lack it.
Yeah, lemmy is insanely illogical on this topic. Services cost money to run, and the average user is not going to self host anytime in the foreseeable future. I have yet to hear anybody offer a vision of how things might reasonably work without ads OR subscriptions.
The argument as far as I can tell is "FOSS means I don't have to pay anything because it doesn't cost anything! If they ask for donations they don't mean me"
Not a single one of them have a monthly contribution to their instance though. Guaran-fucking-tee it.
