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   Anthropy (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 05:57:32 JST Anthropy

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   @mirabilos @dalias @Em0nM4stodon that's like saying it's bad to replace a bus that hundreds of people used constantly, because it doesn't last as long as a car that gets very little use and lasts decades

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 05:57:31 JST Rich Felker

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     @anthropy @mirabilos @Em0nM4stodon Hardware in data centers doesn't get used by "hundreds of people".

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 06:24:04 JST Rich Felker

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     @anthropy @mirabilos @Em0nM4stodon That's a warped framing of "used by". In that framing, a self-hosted server also gets "used by hundreds of people".

     In a normal sense of the word, the party using the hardware is the individual or organization running the instance.

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     Anthropy (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 06:24:06 JST Anthropy

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     @dalias @mirabilos @Em0nM4stodon ... says the person posting this across a dozen datacenters. If anything it gets used by thousands if not millions of different people.

     datacenters are *literally* the shared (public and private) transport of the internet. The comparison doesn't get much more direct than that. This also includes your ISP

     Doesn't mean that e.g Aviation or AI are efficient forms of transport, but it's shared transport all the same.