Jan Wildeboer đˇ
Decentralisation is the biggest enemy of authoritarianism. So #SelfHost. Buy solar and batteries. Heat pumps. Get an electric car. Electric bicycles. Use #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware. Store your data at home. Get a Canon Selphy to print the pictures you take. Buy books. Vinyl or CDs. Join your local library. Do. Donât discuss. And help your neighbours to do the same things. Sharing is caring. Avoid getting lost in discussions about whatâs best. Do. Fail. Share. Learn. Repeat. 1/4
Youâre here on Mastodon/ActivityPub reading this message. That makes you part of the galaxy. Now move more friends and family to this galaxy. It wonât be easy. But itâs worth it. We might need these hidden networks. These cells. Things are changing fast. But we have the tools and solutions we need. Do. Donât discuss. Good night! 2/4
Avoid the âyes, butâ and fundamentalist crowd. Yes, many things you can buy are centralised through cloud services. Alternatives are not always available. Letâs work on that. Not through infighting and purity tests. But in pragmatic ways. Building solutions. Together. In the open. With patience and persistence. Deal? 3/4
To clarify: this is NOT doomsday style prepping. The aim here is to create sustainable infrastructure that is decentralised and resilient, a common good approach, based on Open Source and Open Standards. Building positive alternatives that people can use. Attractive enough to leave the centralised solutions and their owners behind, not out of spite, but by simply being better. No ideology except "share, fail, repeat, progress" 4/4
Uwe KĂźchler@jwildeboer I must admit that, in parts, I do it out of spite as well.
Nevertheless, independence from surveillance capitalism and #e14n -prone platforms that happily cave in to autocrats is priority no. 1.
@oraculix My experience is that being AGAINST something, out of spite, costs me energy and worsens my mood. So I have decided to instead work on solutions, ignoring what I try to replace as much as I can. That gives me a positive mood and more energy to work on the next thing :)
@jwildeboer THIS. I couldn't agree more, that's why I self-host, operate photovoltaics and joined the Fediverse. Not *against* but *for* something.
So let me rephrase my provocative sentence to something like: With said priorities, it also feels great to be independent from platforms or companies that I despise. And, in the best case, help others to gain some more independence.
So let me rephrase my provocative sentence to something like: With said priorities, it also feels great to be independent from platforms or companies that I despise. And, in the best case, help others to gain some more independence.