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> Own your infrastructure.

Absolutely. I have also said this countless times before in relation to self-hosted git. [0] Each time GitHub went down every week last year, I have made the case against the 'centralising everything' argument.

The social networks that didn't survive de-platforming are the ones that didn't self host. Parler is on that list.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23849565

It's hard to "own your infrastructure" when you needs are so extreme. Part of the job of tech workers is to make things efficient so that the company doesn't end up with an outsized OpEx or CapEx. With all this hardware required, they have made it impossible to own their own hardware.

Uh, is it just me, or does that sound like a hell of a lot of hardware for a site with only 15,000,000 registered users and an average of 2,300,000 active ones?

It is. I really want to know what the hell is going on with their dev team.

That doesn't solve the the software/architecture problems that led to these huge hosting requirements.

Just need to own your servers, network up to a backbone peer, CDN, DNS registrar, credit card processor, and bank.