That’s certainly an oddly optimistic take in this neighborhood.

Unless you mean space exploration, which I personally think is a delusional distraction.

that could be because it is an AMAZING post – it covered all the points and no one has anything left to say

Finally, I know why.

Is not really a showerthought and flagrantly breaks rule #6. Put this elsewhere.

Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.

Sure, it’s fine. But if I’m only publishing text and photos, and I don’t need tons of specialized plugins, and I’m dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It’s at least as fast, and more secure by design.

Did not know that. Useful.

Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

But surely the average Zuckerbook user is not so dumb as to miss what this graphic is describing - a crazy utopia where they could talk to people on TikTok and Xitter as well as Zuckerbook?

And then some of them learn that downvoting is obnoxious and toxic, while others never grow out of infancy.

I assure you I am not a robot

No but definitely an American.

The opposite is also dangerous, i.e. believing reflexively in heterodoxies and conspiracy theories. But your point stands.

Ha, good analogy.

This sounds like an elaborate way of saying you want to blog.

Or, as the kids call it these days, “to post on my Substack”. The two things being identical except that the latter sounds cooler and allows them to indulge their corporate Stockholm syndrome.

Very interesting perspective! And yes, I keep all my data locally, literally all of it, and the only bits of it that go on my VPS or - worse! - mobile device are either encrypted or not private. So your theory is right on the mark.

Worth remembering that the benefits of open source are less critical with server-side software compared to when it’s your own personal computer. Personally, if it’s SAAS then I’m not much bothered what they’re running it on. Not to invalidate your general point.

Contravenes rule #3. Moderation please.

PS. And rule #1 and IMO even rule #4 because it’s a pretty boring observation.

I like it. The reasoning’s good.

I hate the term “instance”. It’s hopelessly geeky (it derives from object-oriented programming). It brings to mind nerds and gamers in basements.

This seems to be missing Mali, the home of .ml. It’s in West Africa and since the French soldiers left it’s been an authoritarian client state of Russia. Very appropriate.

This is one of the 10% of showerthoughts here that are actually showerthoughts and not… something else.