I was happy to see that you can listen to your podcast on a simple website, without registration or apps. I can only continue to recommend using and advocating open and good technology and avoiding closed things that also perform actions for commercial purposes that are not beneficial to the user. Take social media, for example: Use Twitter less, Mastadon more often instead.

We should celebrate and use the good and not dwell on the bad and worry about it. Time is better spent trying out the good and helping to spread and improve it. Monero is not without alternatives either, just like Linux. Instead of always using the standard Linux distribution, you can also install BSD to contribute to the diversity of the infrastructure. Monero’s privacy technology could be overtaken by Lightning-like state channels. Good will prevail.

I’ve listened and generally agree. The security in modern society is very complicated and interweaving in daily life.

Those ppl are making first steps and it is admirable, however only a few speak up about life long education on how to counteract common invasions, less ppl are actually implemented it, and a very few extreme ppl went off grid completely, basically become asocial. So on the personal level it will depend on the personal goals, that “just my one thing” the moment you’ve achieved it that no more advancement is expected. Some of them are just using existing infrastructure for their important goals and don’t care about anything else. Would proper education help from early childhood? Would going off grid help the fight against the system? There is no single answer that would address all of the issues in the current state of society.

We are collectively the society, so it should grow from within all of us in order to see desired changes.

Nice rant. I see things trending in a positive direction, 10 years ago everyone just used Youtube and facebook. Now we have so many pretty good options it is a matter of time where private by default options will be the only suitable choice.

When p2p network privacy… Unusable until sun super nova resistant

I think you’re talking about a number of things that have nothing to do with each other. Yes, communists and anarchists have the “just one thing” in common and don’t seem to understand anacyclosis (i.e. all political systems are unstable and flow into each other), but both are a response to the current system. It is not a coincidence that the tea party and occupy walls. Communists accept that governments are going to take over everything, so if that’s going to happen, it should work for the people (it won’t…it will just make it more abusive and self righteous). Anarchists see government abuses and think that getting rid of governments will fix things (it won’t, it just replaces abused laws with “might makes right”). Each are pushing in different directions of anacyclosis and each will fail. So far, the most stable political system is a mixed system that contains multiple systems, but even this seems on the verge of collapse.

WRT Open source, it’s not about communism. It actually encompasses many contradictory political theories. Even the self proclaimed commie himself, Richard Stallman had no issues with selling open source programs or paying for maintenance, so there is some nuance you’re missing even for the open source commies. Let’s not even mention the more nuanced views of Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux). I’ve been using Linux since the 1990s when it was real bear to use. I did it because I was feed up about being controlled and spied on and nickel and dimed and planned obsolescence. Plus i wanted to know how it worked. I could take a Unix programmer from 1980 and drop him in front of modern Unix and he could start producing useful code. There’s no way I could do that on Windows. Linux is good because it’s motive for existence is usability, not profit even though profit can enter into the equation. Yes, you may have to pay for something advanced now, but if it’s needed and if it’s not niche, it will eventually be developed by open source and create a more advanced ecosystem upon which more innovation can be build and paid for if it is good enough.

WRT Lemmy, it depends on which forums you visit. On my forums, I tend to see more apolitical and privacy focused people (i.e. they don’t want their info shared to the collective), so your impression may say more about you than Lemmy. WRT Nostr, look at the top 20 tags for any week of the year. Over three quarters have to do with either Bitcoin or Nostr. Yes, other topics exist but for the most part Nostr is a bitcoin maxi echo chamber that tries to chase away all non-Bitcoin conversations. It’s being ruined for any non-bitcoin usage.

WRT cloudflare, agreed, even the monero.town owner agrees so it’s not about ideology. He said he’s not technical enough to know another solution since not using cloudflare resulted in weeks of downtime. Give him a hand on a solution…you can even open up a CSS to fund this work, and you can be sure this will be taken care of since cloudfare prevents Tor from being used.

Regardless, the world is complex. If you see the world as “Just my one thing” alone, you might be a victim of your own analysis.