I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
Honestly the only reason I care about #p2p and #localfirst #web stuff is because it gives us practical tools to have nothing but what we have in our pocket and still be able to work with information technology and collaborate with others.
Everything else is just fun extras. :P
It pains me that communities need to either pay a corpo to own all of their shit or deal with complex nerd shit like the cloud to host their own (which is still paying some corpo eventually)
@mauve
Strong agree. That's exactly why I asked what I did just yesterday: https://mastodon.joelving.dk/@joelving/110611333090970083
How can we bring those capabilities to more classic web applications?
Peer-to-peer has this natively or of necessity, but can we bridge the classics somehow?
@mauve Honestly I have the exact same mindset as you, which is also what made me interested in movements like https://trade-free.org, I'd like to live in a world where people have equal access to these things regardless of their income, at least for their basic needs. My friend @tio has made this documentary called TROM II and this is one of the core themes explored in the film. He has uploaded it to Peertube for everyone to watch for free, I think you might like it 🙂 - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
@mauve I'm slowly trying to make a search engine service where you can set up your own search engines. The idea is to make it an offline-first service with no cost. And because of p2p the server costs of hosting will be minimal, so the service could have a really low price. It's basically a freemium business model, but where the free tire users doesn't cost money, and the paying customers also has a very low cost.
@mauve This is why I'm so interested in this stuff too.
Plus it allows our networks to be flexible in ways that don't require large scale infrastructure.
Like how many people I follow on SSB don't even have internet connections and are usually sailing on the ocean.