andrewnyr

Mostly all of the volunteers did not support going into partnership with freenode. Thomas was one of the only ones who wanted it (and he only did it when mostly all of the tech team threatned to quit)

(source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)

people on this website will complain about the stupidest shit

1) refuse to take responsibility for content they host by claiming they don't host >CDNs don't host content, they proxy it

2) discriminate against huge parts of the Internet with no publicly known rules, nor methods to change that discrimination >Not large parts of the internet, scammy and attacky parts of the internet. If the rules were public they wouldn't be effective.

3) make the abuse reporting process intentionally difficult and time-consuming >simply untrue, every abuse report i have filed has had an answer back within 24hrs

4) want to aggregate all the DNS data they can by making a deal with Firefox to turn on DNS-over-https by default without asking or even informing end users >this is a good thing as they are audited as having not keeping logs of dns queries

5) want to re-centralize the Internet, in part so they can mix bad actors with good, in ways that make blocking next to impossible >again every cdn centralizes the internet, and many sites need this protection

there are multiple other large CDNs out there... its a lot more like 5 market leaders tbh

there are many solid competitors: Amazon, Fastly, Akamai, Imperva to name a few

Unfortunately, bad actors have made centralisation necessary for many sites to survive against even low-traffic attacks

for a global cdn... it quite literally is

proxy =/= hosting

understand the tech, there is no redefinition going on

Great write up here, helps supplement the docs perfectly.

The withdrawals happen about 3ish days after announcement... this isn't flapping imo.

They seem to be one in the same.