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1. John Goerzen (jgoerzen@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:03:18 UTC John Goerzen

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   • jojo

   @jonatasbaldin If we can imagine a future in which it's as easy as a router to set up... Yes, still not everyone, but a lot of people. I suppose we probably need both!

   • jojo (jonatasbaldin@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:03:18 UTC jojo

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     @jgoerzen yeah! I see self hosting like gardening. It needs attention, care, learning. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but it requires time and energy. That’s why I think most people won’t do it, like most people don’t do gardening, unfortunately :(

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   • John Goerzen (jgoerzen@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:03:20 UTC John Goerzen

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     • jojo

     @jonatasbaldin And another option is radical decentralization. Like #Mastodon, for instance. We are already pretty near (or even at) the point where non-technical people can buy a cheap box and self-host whatever apps they like - eg, #Freedombox. The problem is getting a static IP and inbound ports open. #Yggdrasil can possibly help there.

     So instead of having centralized services so large that they cost billions to maintain, individuals could host their own at minimal cost.

   • jojo (jonatasbaldin@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:03:20 UTC jojo

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     @jgoerzen I don't think people would be keen to setup their own boxes, people like my mom.

     BUT, we need to create a world where more and more people can run services and offer to their local communities. We need services to be small, local and to grow naturally.

   • jojo (jonatasbaldin@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:03:21 UTC jojo

     > The modern web is funded by advertisements. Advertisements pay for all those “free” services you love.

     I'd rather pay for fucking tweets.

     Just because something is the way it is, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight to change it.

     https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/the-future-of-ads-and-privacy/