2026-09-26 19:28 UTC
and like. I don't think the distance between "etherpad hosted on a cheap VPS" and that universal meshnet is as big as people often think, and while the meshnets in those stories often are portrayed as something that developed in response to a disaster or totalitarian state, I don't think that's a useful framing because I don't think those kinds of circumstances are *necessary* to make these concepts useful to people today, I think that very same kind of infrastructure could 100% serve people in their daily lives today
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@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech 2026-09-26 19:30
I guess this kinda fits into my broader frustration with how so many activism- and resistance-themed stories are set in a dystopian context when they just don't... need to be, when there's so much work to be done already in the world we have today, or even in a world better than that of today, and this kind of work *shouldn't* be associated with "oh that's for when society falls apart" how about we start on this now so that it doesn't have to??