Brutkey

Antiquity/Midnight Spire Games
@midnightspire@mastodon.gamedev.place

@davidgerard@circumstances.run Also: "Just self-host all of the 400 different services you use"

Also also, I blocked several dozen people on here when the Unity thing happened, because they thought it was funny and that anyone using Unity deserved it. When I think of FOSS, I think of this kind of attitude.

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

@midnightspire@mastodon.gamedev.place self-host your email bro, you don't need to communicate with those gmail users really

Max Lee
@the_moep@mastodon.de

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @midnightspire@mastodon.gamedev.place
Email is definitely the best example for self-hosting not being the solution if we can't even trust that concept to handle crucial communication infrastructure.

Granted I personally know pretty much all pitfalls after years of fighting with sending emails from forum software as well as several attempts at self-hosting my full email stack and trying to filter out spam more efficiently but I would never advice anyone of my friends or family to self-host it... (even though my first instinct is to say "Of course you can do it!" but that's based on over a decade of experience in that space, not on the fact that it's realistic for everyone to just do it without proper education)

In my opinion what we really need to solve those problems is to self-organize and build groups of people where we can trust each other to offer the services we cannot handle ourselves but can handle as a group. And we need concepts for how to build and manage such groups without them derailing into capitalism which are compatible with the modern digital age and not hindered by the old analog legal frameworks that exists.