Researcher & #Luddite interested in building commons who loves everything open 💖: #opensource, #openstreetmap #openscience #citizenscience #openculture 
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Director of Research for the Open Humans Foundation, ran openSNP.org, now volunteers with #Codeberg & #CoMaps.
Previously @ Alan Turing Institute & INSERM and used to do #Bioinformatics|#Ecology|#Evolution.
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Replying to @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
@jaredwhite @pat_dev @codefloe totally agree that having commercial hosting for private/client work is valuable to have. I just think that "I/My company runs a thing for free that is based on donations" is a really weird model for that particular niche, might as well pay Github or Gitlab at that point and at least have some contract with guarantees
Replying to @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
@jaredwhite @pat_dev @codefloe personally, I just don't see the niche for a "freemium" service that is "GitHub but on EU servers" as it feels like the worst of both worlds: You're neither a customer with the rights that such a relationship would entail, but neither do you have a right to decision making.
It just smells like the same infrastructure capture we've seen with literally every free service that's corpo-run.