oscillator @ oscillator @slrpnk.net Posts 1Comments 8Joined 1 wk. ago
Only the last 30 seconds or so are not just scratching the surface. The general idea and its click-baity way to present itself on YouTube are mainly status quo affirming, if anything. In a hyper capitalist world, the pure number of people won’t change anything. Neither good but bad. Only the means of oppression and exploitation, and how intense they are applied, changes. At its core the problem is, that people are just used to make rich people richer. And as more and more gets funneled to the top, more and more people are living more constraint lives. Opening this discussion as an actual way to solve problems is just affirming the false competition between us.
The moral imperative of less people equals better also devalues human life itself. This opens the door for problematic worldviews and hurts the optimistic community-based idea.
Where did you end up? I'm looking for a new home, too.
Great interview, thanks!
This is my personal key point:
Creating more democratic spaces in the workplace and guaranteeing the democratic participation of everyone in decision making processes. These are the ideas that might create some conditions for enriching or cultivating different kinds of desires instead of consuming more because you feel lonely and you feel stressed.
I think degrowth really needs to provide a more positive vision of the future because degrowth as such is just a negation of growth.
This is cool, thanks
Sounds super cool, but still don’t know what bonfire does in practical terms. Can anyone elaborate?
Offline-first can be a lot, from my perspective. Just as yours and David's example, an application that work without active internet connection is valid. But this is rather common and the classic way how applications just operated for a long time (despite the modern mobile apps, which have to pull some strings nowadays to allow offline access).
What I find more interesting is when a system or application overcomes the otherwise required network connection. So maybe offpunk (from above) is an example, A web browser which puts everything in a cache, so you can continue to read, if offline. But that's a rather simple approach as well. The whole "opportunistic syncing" approach by Syncthing is also matching. It also covers some ground regarding resiliency. So another aspect could be resilience, meaning a connected system will not just survive a temporary outage of a node, but also continues to work as expected. Many distributed tools would probably count, even classics like git. ActivityPub based tools and the fediverse, on the other hand, are somewhat resilient, but not offline-first. Scuttlebutt would be though: https://scuttlebutt.nz/
Back to your examples: I think if a "simple local application" would do something we usually use network for, but technically don't have to, this would also be interesting for me. An actual example might be: https://devtoys.app/
I got recently inspired by this, which also has its own definition of offline-first: https://gemini.tildeverse.org/?gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-offlfirsoch-2025.gmi (proxied from the Gemspace)
A key advantage of tools like obsidian is the local markdown data. So you can basically use this client until you don’t anymore. Then just move on, if you don’t use very specific plugins or something. So rather little risk here, in my opinion.
But other popular alternatives you might want to check out are logseq and Joplin.
Also same, in combination with syncthing to get it synced over multiple devices.