"Come to the fediverse! Everyone can run their own server!" is starting to sound more and more like "everyone can grow their own food!" or "everyone can make their own clothing." Like. Some people can do these things. Not everyone has the knowledge, resources, and/or time.
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sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 15:04:53 JST sidereal
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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 15:07:19 JST Paul Cantrell
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Agreed. Also similar in that it’s a non-solution: feeding Earth’s population with individual farming would consume water and land at catastrophic rates, and many tiny instances similarly just doesn’t scale.
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