I’ve always been a software guy, but man does building and doing something more physical sound fun. And the community around it all. I plan to get started (at some point) with a homeserver. Networking always felt more high stakes with security and privacy than the application side. Indie web has been calling my name though.

I think I either tried that or didn’t want to bother lol. I guess it felt slightly less janky to click on another backend on nadeko. Gonna update freetube for sure though. I probably shouldn’t care to proxy videos that much.

After finally getting into some embedded/iot tech, privacy, and tbh my own socialist awakening, I’ve been really interested in this kind of stuff.

Is it mostly about awareness or is there something more substantial to the practice and research? It’s such an odd concept to me I haven’t sussed out the details further than the hacker-y, just for fun, “because I can” projects. I’d love to use some tech skills for real purpose.

Unfortunately the only invidious instance I’ve been able to rely on doesn’t enable the API endpoints. The admin is a real trooper though. I’m not sure if it’s the flagship.

Brother, you just made one. The answer is deep inside yourself.

To be optimistic, I’d hope the federation would be able to guard against deeper centralization like a more extreme .world or .ml, a la meta or whoever. There’s always space for grassroots instances, and I’m pretty sure there will always be someone out there running something or with enough interest to learn.