I read it a bit differently: you don't need to be a mega-corp with millions of servers to actually make a difference for the better. It really doesn't take much!

Also, even 12-year-old hardware is wicked fast.

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Aurornis 14 hours ago | parent [-]

The issue isn’t the hardware, it’s the fact that it’s hosted somewhere private in conditions they wont name under the control of a single member. Typically colo providers are used for this.

	▲	unethical_ban 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Is it one person? Is it an organization/professional company with close ties to F-Droid? There are a lot of worst-case assumptions in this thread.
	▲	cyberax 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Eh. It's just a different set of trade-offs unless you start doing things super-seriously like Let's Encrypt. With f-droid their main strength has always been replicable builds. We ideally just need to start hosting a second f-droid server somewhere else and then compare the results.