@billbennett

Perhaps this is the price paid for centralisation and having to trust someone else to do the work of hosting stuff.

If you run your own services on an indeoendent server service, there is a huge amount of work involved, at one time there were many people with those skills, you could easily find expertise at the local computer group meetings.

I get the impression now there are less experts around and those who are, are more reluctant ( and I understand that ) to get involved.

Just as fedi, gives people mroe control, there is more work involved in running the service, we need to find a way to bring more people together so we can run more of these services away from central controls,

Easier said than done, but we are just at the mercy of big tech all the time, which is not good.