there's no escaping the cost of fighting decay/bitrot and of keeping up with a changing landscape. the progress of entropy is unavoidable. one way people go about it is by outsourcing control, but that is a losing proposition: it costs them freedom and agency, and sooner or later that which seemed to serve them becomes that which they serve, because they've become dependent on what others control and benefit from. IMHO the right answer to alleviate that burden is community: find or form one that shares your preferences, and then you can divide the efforts to keep things working the way you and others in the community like. the more you steer away from the community standards, the more you have to bear the cost by yourself, whereas the more you share goals and preferences with the community, the stronger the community gets and the lighter the burden is on each member.

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