Seeing an argument that Mastodon instances are hard to deploy (true of any web application) and that the solution is to focus on making something "serverless" that can be deployed to AWS or other clouds that provide proprietary "serverless" frameworks. Making applications that only run on giant cloud hosting providers is absolutely *not* the path toward technological autonomy. I think we need to better communicate free software principles here.
@dthompson why does "serverless" always just mean AWS
@garbados I guess because they popularized it and are ahead of the other cloud providers in their implementation. setting aside my feelings for the name, I think the basic idea of abstracting away server details is good (I guess Heroku is really one of the first big services for this). we need a free "serverless" protocol or something so that there isn't lock-in.