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Why don’t people just...?

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 27, 2022

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Bit of a rant here, so be warned…

Caught two threads today with the general gist of “why don’t people just…” –specifically, why haven’t people learned from Twitter or just sucked it up and started using 2FA, no matter what level of computer literacy they might be at.

Why don’t open source projects just stand up Mattermost instead of Discord? Why haven’t users finally learned and started adopting 2FA?

In the first instance, I think people just imagine standing up a service and don’t think about the long-term implications of offering a service like Mattermost for a project. There’s a ton of work, and potentially a fair amount of money, involved in offering up a service that’s going to be used by a lot of users 24/7.

There’s the scaling. There’s the need to apply security fixes whenever they may arise. Not just the service like Mattermost, but all its dependencies, the operating system, the database…

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