Re: [Trisquel-users] gnu social

[strypey]

Describing JoinDiaspora.com as "a subsidiary of the Amazon corporation" is  
unfair. They use a hosting service owned by Amazon to host their pod. End of  
story. Would it be fair to describe Trisquel as a "subsidiary" of whatever  
company owns the datacentre that hosts the Trisquel homepage?

Most free software websites and free network services use hosting services  
owned by corporations, because there are very few affordable alternatives.  
Unless you have the ability to set up your own server machines in your own  
datacentre ("colocation" or "colo") like RiseUp.net, you have to lease  
hosting in a corporate datacentre. So people generally look for the best  
performance to cost ratio, and "cloud" services are generally the most  
cost-effective because they make the most efficient use of their hardware.