Mastodawn

I am really starting to loathe the “sovereignty” framing of open source sustainability, or data privacy, or whatever. It would be good to have a better tech community less beholden to the interests of multinational corporations, more globally distributed, etc, but when you have a problem and you think “I know what would make this better. Intense German, French, and English nationalism” now you have like… at least five problems

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ginoputrino 1d ago

@glyph Agreed. I think the way to solve this problem is to always have three main planks in mind when building systems:

1) Open source
2) Ability to Self-host
3) Interoperability/Data Portability

To my mind these are all as important as each other.

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mkj

@ginoputrino I think your 2) ability to self-host should rather be something like "can be run and used independent of any specific other party". If you have that, then the ability to self-host often naturally follows. (It may be complex, but it ought to be possible.) Without it, even with the ability to self-host, you are still beholden to the whims of someone else.

Absolutely 100% agree on interoperability and data portability. Without that, pretty much everything does fall apart!

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