Tech Choices: https://inessential.com/2026/08/24/tech-choices.html
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@brentsimmons I can answer a lot of your questions with “Not anymore.” and I think that’s worth recognizing.
I can’t quit everything, but I’ve quit a lot of services due to the actions of the organizations behind them.
I’ve actively taken my paid business elsewhere, and there are many (free) services I just do not use.
I hope others can say the same.
@brentsimmons OMG yes thank you "These days we need all the righteous fury we can rally — and we also need the clarity to know where to focus it." exactly, EXACTLY. The choice between a nazi bar (txwitter) and literally anything else is so so clear. If you can't get that one right.. I don't know, man.. https://blog.codinghorror.com/i-fight-for-the-users/
@codinghorror @brentsimmons One of my favorites.
@tobias @brentsimmons ah, interesting, Tobias Eigen is one of my favorites as well 🤗
@brentsimmons well said. Well said.
@brentsimmons I've been thinking about a related point to all this, which is that the fediverse isn't adequately sustaining the creators we purport to care about.
And as much as I love the fediverse as a less capitalist community where I can exist without being sold something, we're all made of people who need to make a living somehow.
Maybe it's time we think about how the fediverse can help with that, and how we can avoid the mistakes of <gestures generally everywhere>.
