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  • You’re right. And that’s why more of us need to contribute and spread the word of projects to support them.

    Honestly, FOSS is our last bastion against this consumerist hellscape. I’m working on learning to build my own discord-like front end on matrix specifically for gaming. But I’m just one guy. We’ve all gotta pick where we place our effort and support those around us similarly.

    Vaultwarden taking over bitwarden, should they shut doen as open source, I think would be entirely worthy. But it might need more people to either help vaultwarden or maintain it on their own, you’re right.

    To me, seeing and learning about all of these projects gives me hope. All of these people and communities working to build things out of passion and dedication, because they care and want to provide value to others. No profit motive necessary. We just need to be there to support them as we’ve tied capital to our survival currently.















  • I might recommend a game called 1000xResist

    Sometimes, the whale is too big to fit in the backpack. You can’t take everything with you. Keep this in mind when you reach the ending.

    While we want everyone to have decent lives we have to reckon with the fact that there are people, even if they are provided everything that they need to have a decent and happy life, they will still choose to harm others around them to get ahead.

    We call them billionaires.

    And I believe that when faced with complex problems and fears, studies have shown around 30% of people will flock to authoritarianism. They crave not having to face ambiguity and a simple answer to complex problems they wish to hide from. Even if those answers are lies.





  • I don’t disagree. I don’t care for the Iranian government and never proclaimed as such. Though, I think that’s also part of it as well as that we look at the Iranian government and conflate it with the people themselves. Under that understanding, even as we fight against our fascist regime in America, we, individually, are also responsible for the decisions our leaders make.

    Which, at some level, is true. We could have used our 2nd amendment a while ago, for example, but we’re still here, just working and paying our taxes to bomb the world.

    Also, I think that’s also exactly the point. We all have to be manually approved as a measure against bots. A federated, decentralized platform allows freedom of dissenting ideas to be discussed. Hence why I even asked the question as I was looking for some genuine thoughts around all that complexity (AI usage, good or bad, Iran, good or bad, working class message of peace from both, good or bad?) Though, seems like people are more focused on the Iranian government more so than the message being spoken or the method by which it was created. Broken clock and all that 😅. Both things can be true at the same time. But given the downvotes maybe I didn’t communicate that well.

    If we can disagree with our government and want better, why can’t others? No matter where you are in the world, we are human beings. We should not let those in power define us.