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Here's this I guess: https://hackaday.io/awandering.hacker
Anyway, I understand your concern with this huge monopoly. As far as I know, there really are no competitors. And while I can imagine being worried about the company's future trajectory, I like the way they do stuff now. They are very open about stuff, and they have an interesting blog.
That 20% figure makes some sense to me because a lot of small websites use it because it is affordable (the low, low price of free), and is so valuable to being able to actually get down to the content creation.
While I know that this decline is probably an indicator of poor ecological health, I personally say good riddance.
The biggest thing I picked up on was their practice that they mentioned of sampling traffic and analyzing it asynchronously, to avoid latency penalties.
Many (but not necessarily all) people who sell this type of paraphernalia or services are con artists looking to make a buck off of desperate people who are looking to make sense of their lives in places where they won't.
Such as the non-volatile memory chips that began to fail after irresponsible logging practices [0]
[0] https://hackaday.com/2021/02/11/tesla-recalls-cars-with-emmc...
I guess I'll go make a fork of the OS that keeps the default credentials. No way am I getting locked out of some stupid robot or whatever because I can't remember the password!