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  • I’ll heavily disagree with you.

    All the modern web, using the modern frameworks, for the modern browser, that requires modern hardware, for a modern person… I hove you got the gist just by this phrase.

    We can use less and still be usefull. Most of the web is static. The bakery don’t need to render a unique page for you just because you are from the same country. The same way that the news feed don’t need to regenerate the page every request, it can keep the old news there, until a new post arives, so clean the cache and hit a new one.

    Notice that I’m not talking about pages like a mail application, figma or discord. I’m talking about the majority of the web, most are static, won’t need this.

    Maybe would be a cool thing for ya to look on the small web moviment, it’s a pretty interesting idea, and can show that static pages can be cool, even knowing that they aren’t the “common place”.





  • Depends on how much do you want to tradeoff on this.

    The “easiest” way will always incur in some extra files, or unused shite. When I started, Bootstrap were the only acceptable thing, yesterday were Tailwind, and soon will be “what the AI spits on your face”…

    So, a custom styling will always be “best options”, but this depends on your level of understanding on the web, and if CSS isn’t on your bucket list, leave for the ones that have this on the bucket list.

    (Sorry for not having a silver bullet for this)



  • This is the point we disagree.

    Small pockets of freedom can help, this won’t solve the global crisis, but will provide for the communities[1] the needed force. Also, this can help groups to better organize and waste the least amount of money, effort and mind these.

    Doing nothing right now will not change anything, and doing anything, even the small actions is the starting point for the next thing.

    I’ll use myself as example, even knowing that this isn’t the perfect one, I started with the homelab because Amazon stole something from me, and I decided the that was enough. Now I can see that the hardware is cheap[2], software is pretty much everywhere, federated or open-sourced (even better if it’s AGPL) and the next point is increase the range, for the smaller groups of people around the house, expanding for the neighbors to embark in this.


    1. communities in the physical sense. Group of people, talking in the garden of a common building. Not a digital community. ↩︎

    2. most of people that are in my cirle of friends have a old desktop, or laptop around that can be reused for a simple homelab for a tiny group (around ~10 users) for basic usage, so most of people don’t need a Google Photos, Docs and such. ↩︎


  • Sadly the post isn’t about this.
    I do discuss the work-life balance, the egregious ways that big tech and major companies robs people from their lives. My focus is to provide a bigger area for the “federated way”, even knowing that using this term is already wrong…

    But I mostly agree with you, just can’t see how coop will solve the deeper structural problems, will solve some of the problems, not all of the problems.



  • I have never heard of NymVPN… and I’m impressed (I’m using a similar type of VPN), it’s interesting to see that more and more people are moving to the decentralized networks.

    The crypto acceptance if a wierd point, since crypto for me is always a scam until it’s not. So the moment I saw the crypto thing I was like: “ohhh nice, another scam…”, but it’s closer to the freedom of nation option instead of the scam attempt.

    But this is still a centralized thing, what I want is the Onion routing, but people invested in this should have a better degree of control, instead of pure anonymous users. But this is the tug of war in this (privacy vs control), the more private it is, the less control you have over it, and, to be honest I don’t know which point would be the best in this scale.






  • Almost the point, I don’t want to fragment a system, I want to federate then. Make more people using the system, focus on the protocol and make the system better. For example, Piefed, I’m writing this on a alternative face of the system, but because this is a federated, I don’t need to use the official front. At the same time, I focus on the showing the system for more people around me, and expanding it’s userbase (and money, but I was focus on the human instead of the money).



  • Federation, on my view is part of the solution. But right now the federated apps are solving a limited amount of problems, mostly connected to the social media, and social networks. The moment this moves from these domains to other like an ERP, or maybe a medical backoffice for general clinics, this is the point where the real gain can be seen, but this is (right now), pure utopia and dreams from my own head.