Wow, that shitburger of an article took 3400 words to say:
Cloud-base software sucks.
We want to make locally hosted collaborative software.
Well, almost all of that software exists. Just not in a way the "normal" people can run it. [edit] easily.
Nearly everything I use is self-hosted and I work to make that more true with everything I find useful. However, I can manage my own servers, my own DNS, VPN's, codebase, pipelines..etc.
As far as I know there is very little "local first" or "self hosted" stuff that people can just push a button and have a local-only voice assistant or home automation system. Its coming but its not yet there. I do what I can to help make that easier for others but it still, for the most part, requires someone willing to be at least semi technical at a level above what the younger generations are by default.
Sure, they know how to use all of the apps and the social media stuff. They don't know how those systems work or how to maintain a "local" version of one.
And that's fine, as long as the end user understands that this software exists at the pleasure of some far-off corporation.
I don't have any problem using the collaboration software that my employer chose, but we're all aware that said software could go away tomorrow. That's the biggest problem, the end user thinks it's going to be there forever.
All the schools that created courses using Google Wave or Outlook Express found out, but I doubt they learned anything from it.
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