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There's risk and then there's RISK. A corporate service in the form of a simple VPS is cheap and can be had from a 1000 providers anywhere in the world. Very simple to change providers too. Nothing like the quasi-monopoly of FB/X/YT.


VPS providers are many orders of magnitude simpler and smaller corporate services than social media companies.

Remotely trying to correlate or compare them defies any reasonable semblance of comparability.

You can mail your own server to a co-location service if you want to host the metal yourself.

If you need to go a step further and not rely on one host, it's inexpensive enough to get multiple hosts.


And VPS providers are mostly interchangeable. If one of them goes crazy and starts using AI to randomly ban customers, just take all your toys over to the next one. At the end of the day it's just a commodity root shell.


It seems so obvious to those who know, and non-obvious to those who don't.

I wonder how that bridge at least awareness wise can be improved.




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