YourAvgMortal

feddit.uk was registered last June, just like feddit.nl. Feddit.de was changed in August 2021. Unless the domains were transferred, feddit.de is the oldest

This was a series of decisions with good intentions that went poorly in the long run.

Our customer wanted us to setup a system so their users could track their products from their site from a variety of carriers; but their backend was very old and difficult to work with, and their network very locked down.

We were struggling to setup a single carrier, so we eventually decided to setup a new server with modern tooling on our own network so we could develop this and other “complicated” features with less pain, and they would only have to make a single exception to their firewall.

Fast forward a year and:

• They didn’t request any more “difficult” features, so the server was serving a single API
• One of our carrier’s API keys had expired and nobody noticed because they weren’t using it, and they didn’t request support for additional carriers either
• Somebody on their security team noticed the strange calls to our servers and demanded we moved the API to their infrastructure anyway

Meta made a twitter clone when they had the chance, they’ll happily make a YouTube clone.

I don’t think Amazon or Microsoft are very interested in entering that market, but they are the only ones with the money and compute to support such a platform.

Maybe Netflix could be interested? But I doubt it

A special deal? Doesn’t the message basically say “give us your data so you maybe have a chance at buying stock at full price, and be thankful we’re not marking it up”?

Many of the inactive instances are probably from people who tried self hosting and then gave up. Just my theory.

The real problem is they didn’t play the “think of the children” card. Then the government would leave them alone

Accidents happen, and people panic. Maybe she thought she was pressing the breaks and made the problem worse. I highly doubt anyone would do it intentionally.

I’m sure they understand the problems, and they understand that solving them would eat into their profits

He’s like Trump, he panics if he isn’t in the news for two minutes

The nice thing about the fediverse is that you could start your own instance and not federate with them