Some of these solutions are clearly for the very rich, but I'd keep looking -- the young couple running this site and YouTube channel are very smart, and they give equal respect to extreme voluntary-poverty interviewees, such as the gentleman who runs a flock of sheep from his home-on-a-bicycle. >>
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“With self-sufficiency you never get there, you never become self-sufficient. I mean we tried back in the seventies. We had goats and chickens and bees and I was trying to raise grain.
“Pretty soon I realized that if I want to raise enough wheat for the bread for a year here, it’s better left to a specialist, like I can’t be my own dentist. So you do, it’s a direction self-sufficiency. You do what you can do as much of it as you can.”
@pluralistic I have leukemia and a stuttering heart, so have had parallel experiences to everything you describe and especially the "good people broken system" part. Wishing you a clear path and may all the tigers that jump in your way prove to be tigers you can pet. 🙏
I see sites like https://friendi.ca/resources/installation/ and they're helpful to the clear minded but for those of us with low spoons (long covid or whatever) this feels like it is just out of reach.
What if #Friendica and other Fediverse "platforms" were to set up #cooperatives providing nontechnical members with a simplified domain/DNS package for home-based instances? Or, I'd be happy to turn over setup remotely to a vetted instance maker for $$ ... don't know if it can even be done ... 1/2
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