Meredith Whittaker on Nostr: Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone ...

Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/