Heya John,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I comment inline below:
I think one of the reasons that the focus on directly 'opposing' a
large dominant techno-social infrastructure deployment with a small
techno-social infrastructure deployment is problematic lies in its
basic incomplete
It's not the economic pressure as much as it's the Clumping Effect:
there appears to be a biological predisposition for humans to clump in
larger ... clumps.
Setting up a separate home mail server, with its own domain,
practically unsubpoenable and unspiderable, or home node of a
distributed
So, what's the real alternative if any?
The alternative, I think, is perhaps too difficult to even imagine. The
technical problems of building an open, stable, and user-run communication
Hei August!
I think one of the reasons that the focus on directly 'opposing' a large
dominant
Ultimately liberism has won the masses to socialism by constructing
the dream (American) and means (Capitalism) for an open society purely
based on quantitative, axiomatic relationships. Capitalism has been so
far a viable system of governance because has been able to embed this
dicotomy
dear Tjebbe,
as young squatters in Amsterdam in recent times both me and hellekin
did benefit from your early practices of phone alarm lists.
Considering your presence in this discussion now I feel that the
grounds for this dialogue are extremely interesting and fertile.
It certainly won't hurt
