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Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' as it has become the number 1 site for tracking the Epstein files (hexbear.net)
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[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But isn't Vercel fascist? I thought I've read that on Lemmy/hexbear before

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 days ago

Well, I guess no need for words. Thanks

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

yeah I feel like taking free money from this guy or his company is a bad idea for a project's independence. It's bad enough that they've been hosting it on this guy's cloud service.

You can't accept anything for free without compromising it. That's how the entire NGO world works.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not paying 50k a month definitely beats paying 50k month.

Cloud service providers give away their service for free to non-commercial projects and startups all the time for marketing purposes. I wouldn't read too much into it.

But yeah best to still look for hosting alternatives.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

yeah the dude is definitely doing it mostly for advertising purposes for his company (and personal reputation).