When you’re running all your websites and apps on your own server, and traffic and space costs real money, you are way more careful with optimising images and files, and refrain from unnecessary uploads.
When people use “free" services, paying with their personal data and biometrics, they don’t seem to care.
This is one example of how free services are bad not just for privacy, but also for the environment – because all those costs are hidden.
Per Axbom
npub1ae…f7756
2025-05-05 07:32:39 UTC
Author Public Key
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wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2025-05-05 07:32:39 UTCEvent JSON
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