130 sats \ 2 replies \ @andyleroy 8 Sep 2022 \ on: We are the co-founders of STARBACKR - AMA bitcoin
Thanks for taking time for an AMA. I appreciate the push you all are making for LN integration and how that can remove any censorship and pressure in payments.
How do you all think about centralization factors with hosting your platform? Do you all have some sort of decentralized hosting plans in place to reduce reliance on cloud providers should any content you wouldn't want censored violate their TOS?
You are very welcome! Decentralizing hosting is something that we think about a lot. Balancing censorship resistance and accessibility is very difficult, especially when you don't own a data center.
Currently, we are focussing on building something that solves a problem for as many people as possible. That's one reason why hosting on Tor was never an option for us for example; we don't want to exclude non-technical users. We can solve a lot by providing permissionless payments to our users, because the biggest pain points for users have not been hosting providers, but payment providers.
There are some projects and providers on our "watch list", but saying that we have found a perfect alternative would not be genuine.
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Solid. You all could go burn a lot of tiny building the wrong product in a super resilient way. Focusing on building the right thing for your customers first is the way to go
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