i think a lot about how people complain about zoomers using carrd but never talk about the lack of tools to do exactly that. we have static website generators but most of them don't have good interfaces, self-hosting is still an unsolved problem for close-to-free, etc etc.
and I wish more conversations would turn towards the fact that people are doing these things because the streamlined experience is solving a problem, and what problems those are, and how to solve them ourselves, because otherwise you're not being anti-capitalist, you're being meritocratic.
What solutions do people have without ten years of using computers intensively in their daily lives, or one-to-several years of directed learning? How many people have that free time? How many skills have you acquired without realizing, assuming everyone picked them up with you?
in closing, I think you should host a mastodon single-person instance. It's the way mastodon's meant to be used, the future of social media, and if you fuck it up, go fuck yourself.
(this is hyperbole of one interaction we had with someone from the federated timeline when we re-entered back last year, and they thought we were new and hadn't been there during the First Posting War)
