No.928
Why doesn't this say fuark?
No.932
Get involved in open source projects, promote self-hosting and decentralized infrastructure. Governments and corporations will not do it for us, be goddamn proactive.
No.933
>>932This
Decentralize everything.
No.948
Encourage people to create and learn.
The matrix (media, government, schools) encourages you to be a consumer mostly - this is how we 'got here'.
It won't end unless doing and building cool things is valued more in comparision to buying mass-produced goods.
No.949
>>932How do you stop anything that gets big enough to be significant from getting swallowed by the system or spectacle or whatever.
No.975
>>949Counter them on every aspect. If a photo sharing app has a rainbow photo filter, make yours include a fully customizable gradient filter with dozens of presets (including rainbow of course). See the criticisms people make of the main one and create an off-brand version that is even better. Then it needs to be advertised to the public. This could be done via a viral marketing campaign or other mass marketing tactic that is still respected by the public.
No.980
>>975yea but the average consumer prefers simplicity over extra features. those of us who spend time on messageboards and imageboards and value tinkering and stuff will be happy with customized gradient filters, but the average instagram user couldn't give fewer fucks if they tried. they'll eat up the rainbow one cuz it's easy and they see their friends and social media celebrities use it and think if they do too they'll get more followers
No.1463
>>980And what is stopping someone from focusing on both features and simplicity? The average consumer doesn't mind extra features as long as their use/implementation is easy enough.
No.1465
>Imagine growing up in a world of computing where your opertating system spys on everything you do, as does the government and marketers.
This is one of the most haunting parts of all this nightmare, to imagine how normalized things that some of us can still see as terrible will be for those who came to a world already like this. Not that it was that great a while ago, but this latest version of soykaf is something else, honestly.
But one thing always on my mind is how weak we're being on the part of subversion. There's great work in the parts of trying to substitute the sick system, but very little to actually undermine it. Up until the 90s, people really studied the ways propaganda, manipulation, commotion, really worked, and worked from the inside of those languages to break several instruments of mind-numbing.
I'm not saying there are no efforts in this direction, and that nothing was done. But with all the resources we have, in terms of both information and propagation, seems like something much bigger could potentially be done, but the way it should be done, how to really affect people and wake them up, at least a little bit, to what's really going on, hasn't been found yet.
Maybe it's because the web of symbols, ideas, ideologies, is so saturated, that even when we can go outside of it a little bit, we still can't get enough of an outside view to gain a perspective that would clearly show the anatomy of the monster so we could attack it. And it will just get harder as, like stated on OP, more and more people are around that can't even remember how things were before this specific configuration of things.
No.1481
>>969my floppy copying isn't based on a political agenda
general use computing will exist as a minority use case, but will exist. someone has to build the apps / software the rest of society uses, and lightweight development systems simply don't exist
there are a few cloud based development environments at the moment but they're far limited when compared to a desktop environment
No.1514
>>1481"development environment" can be achieved with terminal + server, or as you call it, "cloud"
this is basically how most of heavy development is done today, web servers, 3d rendering, video encoding, cross-compiling and so on.
