If you don’t support alternative technology you won’t get alternative technology.
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If you don’t support alternative technology you won’t get alternative technology.
The people who build the alternatives have to afford a roof over their heads and food on the table too.
(On a related matter, Small Technology Foundation gets under €400/month in donations – https://small-tech.org/fund-us. Thank you to everyone who contributes but I don’t think anyone believes this is in any way enough for us to survive. Instead I’ve had to sell two family homes we had in Turkey and now Laura contracts in the mainstream while I work on getting the Small Web ready for this year. This is how little support we have. It is, quite frankly, appalling when you think that the shittiest startup ideas regularly get $5M in VC and I wouldn’t recommend doing what we do to my worst enemy, much less to a recent graduate who wants to work in ethical tech.)
(And no, the dude who works at Google during the day and writes his own personal blog software at night isn’t going to save you. He’s going to be too busy working at Meta next and then perhaps even Palantir, too, if the price is right, all while patting himself on the back for his contributions to “open source” and “the open web”.)
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If you don’t support alternative technology you won’t get alternative technology.
The people who build the alternatives have to afford a roof over their heads and food on the table too.
(On a related matter, Small Technology Foundation gets under €400/month in donations – https://small-tech.org/fund-us. Thank you to everyone who contributes but I don’t think anyone believes this is in any way enough for us to survive. Instead I’ve had to sell two family homes we had in Turkey and now Laura contracts in the mainstream while I work on getting the Small Web ready for this year. This is how little support we have. It is, quite frankly, appalling when you think that the shittiest startup ideas regularly get $5M in VC and I wouldn’t recommend doing what we do to my worst enemy, much less to a recent graduate who wants to work in ethical tech.)
@aral "Session is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messenger. Elevate your privacy with blockchain technology."
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@aral "Session is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messenger. Elevate your privacy with blockchain technology."
That's a nogo.@bob Hmm, interestingly they don’t use blockchain to store messages (which would be horrible) but apparently they have a proof-of-stake token that they use to incentivise the nodes in a swarm (based on a quick skim of their FAQ).
(I don’t use it myself but I had heard of them.)
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If you don’t support alternative technology you won’t get alternative technology.
The people who build the alternatives have to afford a roof over their heads and food on the table too.
(On a related matter, Small Technology Foundation gets under €400/month in donations – https://small-tech.org/fund-us. Thank you to everyone who contributes but I don’t think anyone believes this is in any way enough for us to survive. Instead I’ve had to sell two family homes we had in Turkey and now Laura contracts in the mainstream while I work on getting the Small Web ready for this year. This is how little support we have. It is, quite frankly, appalling when you think that the shittiest startup ideas regularly get $5M in VC and I wouldn’t recommend doing what we do to my worst enemy, much less to a recent graduate who wants to work in ethical tech.)
@aral I'm sorry for the poor treatment you receive.
You've spoken multiple times to EU parlamentarians. I would think that some folks involved in the funding decisions had you on their radar after your many talks (I'm not familiar with how EU funding works) and it didn't do anything for you.
Even when you applied for funding, they decided to deny you funding.
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@aral I'm sorry for the poor treatment you receive.
You've spoken multiple times to EU parlamentarians. I would think that some folks involved in the funding decisions had you on their radar after your many talks (I'm not familiar with how EU funding works) and it didn't do anything for you.
Even when you applied for funding, they decided to deny you funding.
@davidculley It’s fine. If the price of getting funding is to not speak my mind or to work on bullshit that won’t ever change anything, I’d rather not have it.
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If you don’t support alternative technology you won’t get alternative technology.
The people who build the alternatives have to afford a roof over their heads and food on the table too.
(On a related matter, Small Technology Foundation gets under €400/month in donations – https://small-tech.org/fund-us. Thank you to everyone who contributes but I don’t think anyone believes this is in any way enough for us to survive. Instead I’ve had to sell two family homes we had in Turkey and now Laura contracts in the mainstream while I work on getting the Small Web ready for this year. This is how little support we have. It is, quite frankly, appalling when you think that the shittiest startup ideas regularly get $5M in VC and I wouldn’t recommend doing what we do to my worst enemy, much less to a recent graduate who wants to work in ethical tech.)
@aral as Bob mentions I got a strong whiff of cryptobro when I saw they have a dedicated token site, and you buy usernames with tokens.
I am a user and proponent of Delta Chat (aka #chatmail I looked up Sesssion a bit and they're somewhat similar in concepts, but differ in implementations.
For example, Delta / Chatmail is based on relays (custom email server deployments enforcing encryption policies) whereas Session uses Swarms (5-7 nodes cache an ID range).
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@davidculley It’s fine. If the price of getting funding is to not speak my mind or to work on bullshit that won’t ever change anything, I’d rather not have it.
@aral I feel you.
YouTube recently recommended a video to me in which an Amazon (or was it some other Big Tech company?) software engineer explained why he left his L8 role in which he made $800,000 a year to focus on his own startup or whatever.
And I was like, "What do you even do with that amount of money?" At what point have you crossed the line where making more doesn't give you anything anymore?
You can have three very nice meals a day while making much less. You cannot sit on more than one toilet at the same time when you have only one ass.
I'd rather make much less than $800,000 (as long as it's enough) than sell my soul to the devil or doing some bullshit job according to David Graeber.
But they are all convinced that everyone they have ever worked with at Google/Meta/Amazon/Microsoft were the sweetest nicest kindest people.
Building some exploitative shit just so that you can take more than you need doesn't seem very kind to me. These people need to zoom out. A lot. Into bird's view. But that's when they throw "keep politics out of tech" at you.
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