Relatively recently, Google Hangouts shutdown (and was replaced with Google Chat)
Doesn't seem like a big thing, but Chat sucks compared to Hangouts, and at any time Google can just go "Nevermind, we're not doing a chat thing anymore"
It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, I realized that as long as I'm relying on the kindness of some global megacorp to keep maintaining my services, I can lose my services at any moment the companies decide it isn't profitable anymore.
Besides everything else, that was a huge impedus to start building my own services based on free and open source software, and the fact that so many are also federated is the best icing anyone could ask for.
Doesn't seem like a big thing, but Chat sucks compared to Hangouts, and at any time Google can just go "Nevermind, we're not doing a chat thing anymore"
It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, I realized that as long as I'm relying on the kindness of some global megacorp to keep maintaining my services, I can lose my services at any moment the companies decide it isn't profitable anymore.
Besides everything else, that was a huge impedus to start building my own services based on free and open source software, and the fact that so many are also federated is the best icing anyone could ask for.
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