CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@evan *Maybe* once LLM scraping bots stop hammering servers around the world, making human-scale online infrastructure dramatically harder than it was just a few years ago, we can have a discussion. Until then it's not just a No, it's a case where everyone who says Yes is an enemy of the very existence of anything like The Fediverse, whether they've admitted that to themselves or not.

@Natasha_Jay Literally going "wow!"

@cstross @target @tragiccommons @mikalai @mishaderidder @pluralistic For me it prompted setting up what eventually became a Nextcloud instance (was ownCloud at the time) as that seemed like my best bet for sync across clients on multiple platforms, and it's grown into a general setup for that for me (podcasts, contacts, calendar, files,,,) but especially at the time it was fiddly enough there was no hope for non-techie folks, and it's no wonder that these days nearly everyone uses purely proprietary corporate-mediated services.