i've gotten my magic moments from the new wave of peer-to-peer projects that are quietly building in the undergrowth
stuff like browsing
dat sites and
zines in
beaker browser, chatting away an evening in the cosy forums of the
secure scuttlebuttcommunity. i've even gone so far as to create a small group chat thing for friend circles and small tech coops called
cabal because i was tired of the state of affairs, of giant vc-funded platforms shutting down themselves or others
this new peer to peer stuff (
small interlude: and it's not blockchain stuff, we're all broke and mostly doing it in our
spare time lol) is so cool and exciting cause you *don't* need to run a server or know anyone that can, it just like,
runs on yr computer or laptop. soon this idealistic post-climate change tech will be able to properly bridge the gap to
mobile devices, for scuttlebutt there already exists
apps that bridge that gap
so yeah, i'd wanna say that there's always going to be people building stuff. the best thing to do is find yr people, meet
them in real life over dinners and stories. there's a really cute and cheesy saying going around in the current p2p wave
of things and it's that the real peer-to-peer network is the friends you made along the way. which is so cheesy it almost
hurts, and also so very true
i think one big thing is having the time to build
a new normal, instead of this prescribed one that deprives us of the
joy of our sunsets. not needing to work 40 hour weeks (which honestly is way too much, not to mention the weeks some
folx put in that come in
way above that) in order to just have somewhere to sleep. on this topic i can't recommend the
book
Walkaway, by Cory Doctorow, enough. it's a great look at what could be possible, and what more than a handful of my
close online friends are already doing
a better world is possible, and it's made possible by things like
tilde.club that allows us to find friends without
mediating commercial interests that try to gull us into believing things that aren't in order to fill mansions with
luxury at the expense of everything and everyone else
woah sorry for the screed everyone, i have Feelings on this topic
post rant: ok sorry i also have to recommend The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin; once i've started recommending books i can't stopc