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Yup, I self-host email, blog and all my stuff except with Cloudron [1]. I use wire instead of telegram. One challenge (at least amongst my circles) is that peo

Yup, I self-host email, blog and all my stuff except with Cloudron [1]. I use wire instead of telegram. One challenge (at least amongst my circles) is that people do not seem to value diversity and are for some reason obsessed with mono-culture. For example, they are not willing to try another docs or email or phone provider. Even if they try something new, they are quick to jump to opinions in mere seconds (for example, I asked a friend to try mattermost[2] instead of slack and he wanted to go on about how the shade of blue was unappealing...). Many of my friends are also truly vested into converting their entire household into apple or google products (i.e one of them). If apple made a mattress tomorrow, they would immediately buy it :) [1]: https://cloudron.io https://cloudron.io [2]: https://about.mattermost.com/ https://about.mattermost.com/

xj9 9y ago
i think what we need is another type of walled garden, what i'm calling a freedom garden. a complete alternative to APPL and GOOG that has media, devices, apps, &c. free software projects and linux distributions have been around for years, but the focus is often on compatibility and familiarity. i say, we throw all of that in the trash. we need fresh ideas, fresh designs, and interfaces. interesting new devices and interaction models. app stores that engage creators as a revenue channel. there's no reason why liberty and profit should be at odds. [0] i especially think that we need to rethink how we develop applications. clouds are useful, but why are the developers on the hook for all of that compute? i think we need to radically simplify the tools we use for provisioning compute resources in a way that allows users to leverage all of their compute resources and easily attach more on-demand. this echoes back to plan 9, which has this idea of creating a virtual system out of many hosts. we're just getting started, and there are a lot of challenges ahead of us. if any of this sounds interesting or fun, maybe you want to get involved with our nonsense. [1] [0]: https://developer.elementary.io/ https://developer.elementary.io/ [1]: https://heropunch.io/join.html https://heropunch.io/join.html
- cutler 9y ago
  It's not about applications, it's about hardware. The corporate giants control the mobile hardware.
  - xj9 9y ago
    read the website, bud. we're tackling that one too. https://www.heropunch.io/tomo/cybredeck/ https://www.heropunch.io/tomo/cybredeck/ most of the action is happening in #heropunch:matrix.org i'm on the os side, actually. @mlg:matrix.org is tackling the hardware. we're starting simple with off the shelf parts, but if people like our shit we are def interested in scaling up to make more advanced devices. also, if you would like to back something that exists right now there's the librem 5 https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
    - cutler 9y ago
      Amazing. I hope you pull it off.
chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
In my circle I've found a social stigma surrounding search engine. I use DuckDuckGo, and I've had numerous friends and co-workers essentially retort: DuckDuckGo? Why don't you use Google? It's amazing how Google as a search engine has developed such brand loyalty to the point that people don't think there can be any alternatives. Personally, I like DDG's results better, and I also simply like diversifying. But as I said, even which search engine you use is highly stigmatized. People should really be open to trying new things once in a while. How can people be certain that some search engine X isn't better than Google's engine when they haven't even tried it? Same goes for browsers -- years ago Chrome won people over with its speed, and friends I speak to still have this perception that it's the fastest browser out there, when some tests would begin to suggest its losing that edge (no pun intended).

xj9 9y ago

i think what we need is another type of walled garden, what i'm calling a freedom garden. a complete alternative to APPL and GOOG that has media, devices, apps, &c. free software projects and linux distributions have been around for years, but the focus is often on compatibility and familiarity. i say, we throw all of that in the trash. we need fresh ideas, fresh designs, and interfaces. interesting new devices and interaction models. app stores that engage creators as a revenue channel. there's no reason why liberty and profit should be at odds. [0] i especially think that we need to rethink how we develop applications. clouds are useful, but why are the developers on the hook for all of that compute? i think we need to radically simplify the tools we use for provisioning compute resources in a way that allows users to leverage all of their compute resources and easily attach more on-demand. this echoes back to plan 9, which has this idea of creating a virtual system out of many hosts. we're just getting started, and there are a lot of challenges ahead of us. if any of this sounds interesting or fun, maybe you want to get involved with our nonsense. [1] [0]: https://developer.elementary.io/ https://developer.elementary.io/ [1]: https://heropunch.io/join.html https://heropunch.io/join.html

cutler 9y ago
It's not about applications, it's about hardware. The corporate giants control the mobile hardware.
- xj9 9y ago
  read the website, bud. we're tackling that one too. https://www.heropunch.io/tomo/cybredeck/ https://www.heropunch.io/tomo/cybredeck/ most of the action is happening in #heropunch:matrix.org i'm on the os side, actually. @mlg:matrix.org is tackling the hardware. we're starting simple with off the shelf parts, but if people like our shit we are def interested in scaling up to make more advanced devices. also, if you would like to back something that exists right now there's the librem 5 https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
  - cutler 9y ago
    Amazing. I hope you pull it off.

chiefofgxbxl 9y ago

In my circle I've found a social stigma surrounding search engine. I use DuckDuckGo, and I've had numerous friends and co-workers essentially retort: DuckDuckGo? Why don't you use Google? It's amazing how Google as a search engine has developed such brand loyalty to the point that people don't think there can be any alternatives. Personally, I like DDG's results better, and I also simply like diversifying. But as I said, even which search engine you use is highly stigmatized. People should really be open to trying new things once in a while. How can people be certain that some search engine X isn't better than Google's engine when they haven't even tried it? Same goes for browsers -- years ago Chrome won people over with its speed, and friends I speak to still have this perception that it's the fastest browser out there, when some tests would begin to suggest its losing that edge (no pun intended).