Decentralisation is the biggest enemy of authoritarianism. So #SelfHost. Buy solar and batteries. Heat pumps. Get an electric car. Electric bicycles. Use #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware. Store your data at home. Get a Canon Selphy to print the pictures you take. Buy books. Vinyl or CDs. Join your local library. Do. Don’t discuss. And help your neighbours to do the same things. Sharing is caring. Avoid getting lost in discussions about what’s best. Do. Fail. Share. Learn. Repeat. 1/4
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You’re here on Mastodon/ActivityPub reading this message. That makes you part of the galaxy. Now move more friends and family to this galaxy. It won’t be easy. But it’s worth it. We might need these hidden networks. These cells. Things are changing fast. But we have the tools and solutions we need. Do. Don’t discuss. Good night! 2/4
Avoid the “yes, but” and fundamentalist crowd. Yes, many things you can buy are centralised through cloud services. Alternatives are not always available. Let’s work on that. Not through infighting and purity tests. But in pragmatic ways. Building solutions. Together. In the open. With patience and persistence. Deal? 3/4
To clarify: this is NOT doomsday style prepping. The aim here is to create sustainable infrastructure that is decentralised and resilient, a common good approach, based on Open Source and Open Standards. Building positive alternatives that people can use. Attractive enough to leave the centralised solutions and their owners behind, not out of spite, but by simply being better. No ideology except "share, fail, repeat, progress" 4/4
@jwildeboer @jwildeboer I selfhost everything I can. E-Mail, File sync, Git forge, websites, Matrix and much more. My own Mailserver is maintained for more than 20 years already.
For the other points: Heatpumps and solar unfortunately fails because of my landlord.
And for transportation, I prefer the "no car at all" approach and am a happy Deutsche Bahn customer and eBike user 🚆
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