This relationship of infrastructural dependency raises questions over their capacity to stay autonomous in a digital space increasingly characterized by state intervention, monopolization, and commercial demands that don’t always fit the public values upheld by independent media. Independent infrastructure providers had either gone out of business or become too costly for smaller media outlets, and there was a fully mature market of ready-made solutions for whatever these outlets might need. Rather, a sustainable future for independent media is one where outlets have easy access to infrastructural solutions designed to protect and enhance core values like journalistic independence, press freedom, and a media ecosystem that takes seriously its mission to inform and cultivate society.