🦧the grink🌈

I've started getting weird incomprehensible Tumblr ads again, keeping a collection. (I removed the website URLs so it doesn't actually function as an ad any more) In this edition, some sort of BDSM diary blog (a kink I'm not into), and an ad all in Swedish pallet of firewood (30 sacks for 3250kr sounds like a steal tbf). I can't read Swedish and have never been to Sweden.

@mynameistillian@plush.city So true. Although to be fair I think the older generation has a better understanding of 'low tech' communications and using it during emergencies than the young. They all used to tune in to shortwave radio stations and use telegrams. Some kids now who grew up on ipads and iphones don't know what files are.

@ericjames@booping.synth.download On the other hand, self-hosted/small community-scale email has been made extremely difficult by google and microsoft. There are so many hoops to jump through if you want to have your emails deliver reliably to gmail or outlook inboxes.

@ericjames@booping.synth.download @mynameistillian@plush.city Infrastructure and self-hosting doesn't need to be that technically complicated. With our current tech, docker makes things quite easy - usually one config file and one command to start the container. I probably spend an hour per month on average maintaining and updating my server and I have loads of services running. Also, on the other end of the scale, cubans have been running their own internet by throwing cables between buildings by hand. Running a 90's/00's-style internet is technically quite cheap and straightforward I think.

@ericjames@booping.synth.download Thats fair. I reckon it is well within your ability to self-host a few small services if you were motivated, but I get your point.