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Someone just realized the importance of hosting your own infrastructure. C'est la vie.
So how's hosting Stacker News working out for you?
Seriously, there's a certain point at which any sort of forum tool requires someone hosting who you have to give some trust to (even Nostr's decentralized system sends the messages through relays).
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Huh? Sure. But the goal is to minimize the amount of trust and control that you have to give to other people. I host a Nostr relay for myself, for example.
Sure, I might have to use someone else's relays for reach but I always have a recourse in that my notes are also being sent to a node that I control.
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Ah, gotcha -- I'd read your initial post as being about the data being scraped/sold, not deleted/taken out of someone's control.
But even there, unless you only stick to nostr or a few similar tools, there's loss potential everywhere -- I may have some of my SN posts saved, since I often compose them offline, but not all of them. And probably none of my comments. Ditto for a bunch of other sites from Livejournal to Reddit. Most are probably ones I'll never need or want to revisit, but there are probably some exceptions I'll lose at some point.