While it all seems doom and gloom, sometimes it’s best to take a step back for a moment. We’re in the 2020’s, a decade where federated services are starting to kick the butts of big websites. DRM has been proven time and time again to not work. We’re free to build things however we like. While the internet used to be much more open and free, it’s not entirely gone yet.
We need to start with ourselves. Sure, liberating the masses sounds like a wonderful goal, but it’s too big to chew. We need to look at ourselves and ask ourselves what we need to liberate ourselves, build that technology and give it to everyone else. We’re already doing it as we speak. We’re on a pretty well made Reddit clone that will use ActivityPub in the future. I contribute to OSM, PostmarketOS and I’m writing a GTK+ alarm clock program so I don’t need to depend on the alarm clock on my phone. Will it use libhandy so it can run beautifully on the Pinephone and Librem 5? You sure bet it will!
2020 is going to be an interesting decade, I can already tell! Let’s make it count!
I’m glad to hear that! Imagine how the earliest pioneers of libre culture must have felt, having initially virtually no support. Look at how big we are now. We definitely are set up in such a way that it’s hard to fail!
While it all seems doom and gloom, sometimes it’s best to take a step back for a moment. We’re in the 2020’s, a decade where federated services are starting to kick the butts of big websites. DRM has been proven time and time again to not work. We’re free to build things however we like. While the internet used to be much more open and free, it’s not entirely gone yet.
We need to start with ourselves. Sure, liberating the masses sounds like a wonderful goal, but it’s too big to chew. We need to look at ourselves and ask ourselves what we need to liberate ourselves, build that technology and give it to everyone else. We’re already doing it as we speak. We’re on a pretty well made Reddit clone that will use ActivityPub in the future. I contribute to OSM, PostmarketOS and I’m writing a GTK+ alarm clock program so I don’t need to depend on the alarm clock on my phone. Will it use libhandy so it can run beautifully on the Pinephone and Librem 5? You sure bet it will!
2020 is going to be an interesting decade, I can already tell! Let’s make it count!
well, there is that, makes me have faith in the future :)
I’m glad to hear that! Imagine how the earliest pioneers of libre culture must have felt, having initially virtually no support. Look at how big we are now. We definitely are set up in such a way that it’s hard to fail!