Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
  • jfrnz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    There is actual competition though, from Google and Microsoft at a minimum.

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
      4·
      15 hours ago

      3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not “actual competition”.

      All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.

      If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.