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  • eh, i don’t think things’ll have time to regress that far before the pendulum swings back, plus it’s only getting easier to set up your own connections over long distances.

    What i can see disappearing are things like youtube and global multiplayer gaming, because that’s just so incredibly data-heavy. But lightweight stuff like sane websites, forums, chats… that’s quite feasible on something like a globally interconnected mesh. At worst you’ll have to wait a bit for things to load, but like… we would probably benefit from that…


  • honestly i’ve been slowly working towards that kinda lifestyle for a few years now and i kinda hope the “internet” fucking dies so i’m free to go all the way, it just seems like what things should be like if our recent development wasn’t so directed by corporate interests or just happened more slowly.

    Old-timey life was really quite a lot better in many ways, like we’re just not evolved to constantly read about every single horrible event that happens to any human, and we need to be a little bit bored sometimes.
    But also smartphones are fucking awesome and i like being able to call emergency services if i’ve fallen and i can’t get up, which even the actual amish recognize.

    Also the aesthetics/vibes of judicious mixing of technological eras is fucking impeccable, i want the countryside to look like Hobbiton, small towns like 18th century sweden, cities to look like 1920’s new york with everything VIOLENTLY art deco, and all of it connected with trams and trains that look like metal caterpillars and where 30-minute departure frequency is seen as bordering on not even having service.













  • I’d add on that stuff like this should NOT be the default (unless that is specifically what you advertise your software for, and even then you should give a clear option to disable or change it), because users (even admins using the software for their instance) will generally not configure things much.
    What should be done is have it as an opt-in, or prompt the user to pick an option.

    If one believes their blocklist/filter is in good faith and beneficial to others and to the world in general, then one shouldn’t feel a need to force others to use it, only inform them that it exists.





  • To prevent it getting lost i want to point this out in its own top-level comment:

    Keep in mind that as the copyright holder you can publish your code under as many licenses as you wish, and charge for whichever licenses you wish.
    You could publish it for free under AGPL, charge a smaller sum for developers who want/need a more permissive license like BSD 3-clause, and charge out the ass for a full on proprietary license.

    Do note though that you’d have to think about how to handle contributions, as that will be copyright of the respective authors and thus you can’t just merrily go and change the license of their contributions. You’d have to ask them to sign a Contributor License Agreement or just straight up manage the codebases separately (which is a little bit of a mess).