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Welcome to cyberpunk irl.

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with open source and self hosting i’m not sure i agree

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these pundits have an opinion for everything

that article was particularly weak

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imagine having an opinion

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Well we got the stuff like production down. Shame about the distribution stuff.

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That was a great read.

The point of all of this is to say: the tech utopia fantasy is truly dead to me. The image of the cool, hippie, leftist Silicon Valley tech is wrong.

I feel this in my soul, because I was that leftist hippie who got into tech because he believed all this shit and getting disillusioned over time was just fucking painful and made me hate those goons with a passion.

The straw I have left is that I’m not alone and that more people realize this and we make our own communities again that don’t suck. There’s still a long way to go, and Fedi has its own problems, especially when it comes to kick out the racists, sexists, and other bigots, but I try to stay positive that we’ll get there. At least to a degree.

(I mean, we have Awful and it’s an example that you can keep the bar nazi-free if you want to.)

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Just looked around their blog/website. Lots of great stuff here. Thanks for sharing.

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Seconded! I’m happy to find another cool ‘small,’ kinda personal type of website/blog. Reminds me a lot of how surfing the World Wide Web used to be (in a good way!)

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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here’s the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

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