After Twitter went to shit, where else do customers have to go for customer support like this?

Admittedly, I didn’t read the article, but I have seen plenty of other cases woth cloudfare or other big providers where people have only been able to set things right by kicking up a fuss on social media — like that recent one with amazon aws.

I’m using eternity, which hasn’t received any updates, on my phone, and the default lemmy web interface on my computer.

Maybe I need to try some other options.

This is just straight wrong. iMessage on android has worked by connecting to a remote Mac, which then connects to imessage. The protocol is locked to their hardware.

And, even if there was a true open source reimplimplementation of iMessage, that would say nothing about the security of Apple’s proprietary implementation of the iMessage end to end encryption.

Because some of us have fat fingers and accidentally downvote when we scroll on mobile.

One of the things I liked about reddit was that, since it saved downvoted posts, I could go through the list every once in a while and undownvote the accidents.

Can’t do that here though, and I sometimes notice posts or comments I’ve accidentally downvoted.

Anyway, people shouldn’t care so much, we don’t have a karma system or the like here anyways, so why does it matter?

No, it is lock in. If apple allowed for multiple app stores other than their own, then users could pay for an app on one app store, and then not have to pay again on another, potentially even on non-apple devices.

I encountered this when I first purchased minecraft bedrock edition on the amazon kindle. Rather than repurchasing it on the google play store when on a non-amazon, I simply tracked down the Amazon app store for non-amazon devices, and redownloaded it from there. No lock in to Amazon or other android devices, both ways.

Now, the Apple app store would still probably not work on androids… but now they would actually have to compete for users on the app store, by offering something potentially better than transferable purchases across ecosystems.

I suspect the upcoming Epic store for iOS and android may be like that… pay for a game/app on one OS, get it available for all platforms where you have the Epic store. But the only reason the Epic store is even coming to iOS is because Apple has been forced to open up their ecosystem.

Provision Management Software

Openstack skyline/horizon

Compute

Openstack nova

And so on. Openstack is also many, many components, that can be pieced together for your own cloud computing platform.

Although it won’t have the sheer number of services AWS has, many of them are redundant.

The core services I expect to see done first: compute, networking, storage (+ image storage), and a web UI/API

Next: S3 storage, Kubernetes as a service, and then either Databases as a service or containers as a service.

But you are right, many of the services that AWS offers are highly specialized (robotics, space communication), and people get locked in, and I don’t really expect to see those.

AWS is software. Just not something you can self host.

There already exist alternatives to AWS, like localstack, a local AWS for testing purposes, or the more mature openstack, which is designed for essentially running your own AWS at scale.