The #Mozilla #Hubs shutdown is also exactly why communities should be investing in #p2p tooling. Had they gone with a fully distributed model there would be no central service to close and the communities using it could have kept doing so regardless of Mozillas involvement. Instead they went "cloud native" and initially relied on a specific cloud platform which basically locks everyone into a final shutdown regardless of who "owns" the cloud.

@mauve Thats interesting - I had never heard of Hubs until the shutdown announcement, so *THEN* I went and checked it out. The room concept is (or should be) easy to decentralize. You wanna pack up your Hub "Room", the room becomes unavailable and the door becomes locked. But no reason why anyone else need be affected.

Dang. Another actually good idea goes bork.

@tezoatlipoca I mean to be fair the Hubs team has done so much better a job at this than any proprietary platform. I think what they did makes sense in their context. For one they've been making it easy to self host a hubs instance and are working on tools and docs for folks to pull their data down and onto their self hosted instances.