Wow, this is a moldy meme. Anyone go to the cool website?

The best UX doesn’t need to be explained

Everything is hosted by someone’s effort and will. Where the service is hosted or how well the service operates under load is irrelevant. You could have racks of metal in a data center that you rent, host infra with SaaS providers, or have a single host at home. A person can absolutely set up whatever they want at scale, and it’s not in bad form to have someone help them and pay them for their effort.

In my opinion, it’s the content and practices that matter, not how well the service works. People choose to use most providers because they want to use them. As an example, there are thousands of social media sites, yet Facebook is one of the dominant platforms. Every user could never log in forever starting tomorrow, and they would dry up, but realistically, this won’t happen. Personally, I don’t mind that lots of people are on Facebook. I just don’t like their practices, which are so exploitative that they regularly break laws.

My point in asking all these questions is that I don’t think it matters if 5 users choose to use something you’re hosting or 5 million, or even if you make money off it. If your service is successful because it’s a good service, and you’re being ethical about it, I don’t think that someone should come take it away. I do think that you should be obeying laws and paying taxes, but that just reinforces my ethics position.

However, this is just my opinion, which is just as valid as yours. You made an example with YouTube; what opinions do you have about YouTube, and what actions would you take? How would you describe little to no competition, and how would you create competition? What problems do you see with a product name?

Why can’t you have a monopoly with something you host yourself? What product am I confusing with another sector?

You host stuff in your house, and create a monopoly. Does a guy in a suit show up at your door to claim it? How does running a service as a hobby compare to oil?

If the breaking point is size, then what qualifies the size? What if you hosted your stuff at a medium scale in your house as a hobby? Does this mean that an anonymous person can demand that you host certain content? At what point is your infra not yours anymore?

Sooo… Facebook is dead? But it isn’t?

What if it was something you were hosting and someone told you what to do? Kind of three antithesis of Lemmy, really.

By oil companies. They pushed the plastic recycling narrative before it was even feasible to recycle it, all to sell more oil for plastics.

You know that recycling logo with the three arrows? It doesn’t even mean that the plastic is recyclable; it simply states what type of plastic the material is made out of.

NPR did a recent investigation in this matter, and less than 5% of recycled plastic, given to your local recycling plant, actually gets recycled.

Not to mention that we didn’t even know if our recycling was even recycled. We used to ship it to countries in Asia, burning bunker oil all the way there, and whatever happened to it happened. Out of sight, out of mind, and likely not recycled.

The best thing you can do is not buy disposable plastics. Even other materials that are very recyclable, like aluminum and glass, still needs to be shipped, processed, melted down, and remanufactured to be useful. It’s better for the environment, but not anywhere close to net zero.