Don't lean on a central service as a crutch
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that's kind of a crutch, okay? Because it's easy to just sort of offload some of these things on to other services. And then you end up with you know, with a single point of failure, and a lot of depend a lot of dependency.
Episode 174: Nice and Frothy (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:23:48 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Offloading features onto a third-party service is easy, but you end up with a single point of failure and a lot of dependency. For ActivityPub and podcasting to work, everyone needs to participate fully from the start. Helper services are fine, but they shouldn't become required.