The analogy is that you buy a car (because if it breaks, the car and your entertainment stuff, you will buy a new one to replace it, you will also carry all maintenance) but suddenly you can't drive backwards anymore because the manufacturer decided retroactively that you should pay extra for that (possibly in a subscription).
I would say it is your good right then to make your car drive backwards regardless of what it may take.
The load distributes across more shoulders automatically.
If you only host a server for yourself and 10 friends it costs next to nothing, if you have a big operation it can get just as expensive, it depends on what you are willing to do.
With centralized systems there is no choice but for the one centralized host to host everything.
Bei der Kontrolle verhielt sich der Beifahrer widerspenstig und wollte seinen Ausweis nicht zeigen.
Warum sollte er auch? Muss er? Ich wüsste nicht warum.
Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat nichts zu befürchten.
The developer can yank the software from under you, he can change the monetisation model, or he can drop support for the software. With Free or Open Source software you could just take over the responsibility of maintainership or outsource it some other developer you can trust instead.
Sure, good point but in the real world this will never happen.
If Mozilla suddenly decides to implode you won't just casually take over Firefox or hire another maintainer to develop it for you.
In theory this sounds nice but for any software that is of any real complexity (and thus use) it is pretty much irrelevant.
I see you are a man of tights
Ist ja nicht von ihm sondern von Jens Oliver Haas
No. Programs cannot reprogram themselves in a useful way and are very very far from it.
This won't happen in our lifetime. Not only because this is more complex than rambling vaguely correlated human speech while hallucinating half the time.
Why isn't it just federating though? Do I have to create an account just to read the Twitter instance?
Say you have critical information that you want to delete
Then you shouldn't have uploaded it publicly.
other instances can just ignore this deletion request, than I could technically write a plugin that uses an extra instance, to always display all deleted comments to me
The same was always possible with Reddit and was even implemented. Why is this a problem now?
For other sites you’d need a crawler
Only if they don't have an API.
Es ging um Programmieren lernen mit Java.