nostr solves for who owns the shared service. nobody. run your own, use an open relay, or pay for one from folks you trust.

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sulam an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The story right now is to own the least you possibly can, at least if you're a business. If I can buy it that's usually the right choice, in terms of opportunity cost if nothing else.

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designerarvid 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What problem is that a solution to? Is there a problem with someone owning it, in that case: what?

	▲	baron3dl 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		consignment to existence as a cloud serf. paying rents to have your data held hostage and exploited by a third party. maybe these aren't problems for you
	▲	barnabee an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Is there a problem with someone owning it Yes > what? They can decide you can't use it anymore They can decide to charge more for it They can arbitrarily take features out from under you or change how it works They can read and/or sell/give away/accidentally get exploited and lose your data They can prevent your extracting your data to move away from them They can prevent you building or integrating other tools They control how you can modify or configure the software ...