Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu (www.middleeasteye.net)
from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 30 Sep 20:13
https://lemmy.ml/post/36904569

Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.

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GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml on 30 Sep 21:38 next collapse

heart-warming. uplifting. sometimes i feel that i live in a world where “cash is king” and ego matters more than almost anything else.

thejml@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 23:58 collapse

You do, “Cash is King” is why people canceling these things en masse makes a difference in the world… you make a difference in their bottom line.

My only regret is that I cant vote with my wallet against things I cant afford to buy in the first place.

moseschrute@lemmy.zip on 30 Sep 21:43 next collapse

Cloudflare pages has been very nice since I stopped using Vercel about a year ago. Netlify is also nice!

mindbleach@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 22:22 next collapse

“keeping our free societies ahead”

Why is my dog barking?

drmoose@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 02:14 next collapse

What an incredibly dumb thing to do. They deserve all of the backlash they’re getting no matter how and why the selfie happened.

couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip on 01 Oct 02:36 next collapse

how and why the selfie happened.

If you mean he forgot to caption “about to put a haymaker through this guy´s dick” I doubt that´s the case here

0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Oct 10:27 collapse

For people, usually with empathy, it’s dumb, for others this may be a call for business. And there isn’t a shortage of people supporting the genocide. US literally had 2 genocide enablers for last president election. Rich people in US never shy away from the most unethical shit to make more money.

What do you think the military industrial complex has been doing since WWII?

drmoose@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 11:07 collapse

How is this business? Dude literally lost a shit ton of customers.

Tm12@lemmy.ca on 01 Oct 14:59 collapse

Doesn’t have to be smart business.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 11:03 next collapse

Name and shame: Guillermo Rauch is a genocide supporter.

ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de on 01 Oct 11:19 next collapse

How out of touch do you have to be to post such a photo now?

Corelli_III@midwest.social on 01 Oct 11:32 next collapse

goddammit now i have to find another host

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 11:58 next collapse

Filen, NextCloud, pCloud, Internext, MEGA, Tresorit, IceDrive , all EU provider, currently using US providers is supporting Israel.

quick_snail@feddit.nl on 01 Oct 12:04 next collapse

Most of those provide unencrypted cloud storage. There’s only a few you’d want to use

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 12:21 collapse

Wrong, all provide encrypted no knowledge storage, Internext even with Quantum encryption. Privacy protection is mandatory in the EU to be able to operate.

quick_snail@feddit.nl on 01 Oct 12:41 collapse

What I said was that they provide unencrypted storage. It’s possible, for example, to store something unencrypted on PCloud. It’s not possible to do that on Mega.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 12:57 collapse

I don’t know, well AFAIK Filen in its free version (10GB) isn’t encrypted, but why do you want an unencrypted storage?

quick_snail@feddit.nl on 01 Oct 13:31 collapse

I’m saying we should avoid providers that offer unencrypted storage, like pcloud, filen, etc.

boaratio@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 12:57 next collapse

+1 for pCloud. I’ve been using them for years. Really great service.

quick_snail@feddit.nl on 01 Oct 15:22 collapse

-1 for pcloud. They support unencrypted storage.

lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.works on 01 Oct 15:32 next collapse

Encrypt it yourself :)

quick_snail@feddit.nl on 01 Oct 15:38 collapse

You just killed a whistleblower (due to human error).

Better to avoid that and only use services that can’t accidentally take files unencrypted

Revan343@lemmy.ca on 01 Oct 15:37 next collapse

So?

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 16:27 collapse

are you required to use it unencrypted?

quick_snail@feddit.nl on 01 Oct 16:39 collapse

No. But you are not required to use it encrypted. That’s the problem.

zaphod@sopuli.xyz on 01 Oct 13:21 collapse

Do any of these even do what Vercel does?

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 13:24 collapse

Visit the homepages and look which features they have, normally similar in all cloud services. But for sure they don’t have friendly meetings with Netanyahu

zaphod@sopuli.xyz on 01 Oct 13:45 collapse

They all appear to be cloud storage. Vercel is a platform to host applications.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 16:07 collapse

Also not a problem, there are also a lot of EU hosting services

www.techradar.com/best/eu-web-hosting

quick_snail@feddit.nl on 01 Oct 12:03 collapse

What do they do?

boonhet@sopuli.xyz on 01 Oct 16:39 next collapse

How fucking thick do you have to be to post a selfie with Netanyahu if you’re selling a platform for software engineers, notoriously a group of people at least somewhat educated, full of leftists (the entire open source movement could be considered communism) and terminally online.

dx1@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 17:40 next collapse

Can’t imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. “Israel” gov doesn’t need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 22:22 collapse

This topic made a cameo into a Fireship video lol

youtu.be/hkSj-QapfZo