Something that really strikes me is that there are certain policies which if we can get them adopted could unravel a lot of ideology for the better!
One I know by the term "modeshift" (thanks @notjustbikes !), that is designing our cities for more than just the car! Make other transport choices equally reasonable options, if not more so!
Another I'd posit is a Universal Basic Income. If we're not coerced into capitalism, we'll have more freedom to try other things!
In the tech space my self-hosting experience would suggest that if we built peer-to-peer static-file hosting (special folders on your computer?) into all our operating systems... Just that could be very "disruptive" to the corporate web!
We've had tech like Bittorrent, IPFS, & Distributed Hash Tables for a quite a while now, we should be able to do a pretty good job!
If you want to write a special client in Haskell... I'll integrate it!
@jcutting It was definitely useful for workstations, but it was honestly a big pain for company servers that enabled it. It was a great vector for distributing malware or other illegal/embarrassing stuff from the company's domain, so it wasn't a great default for web server hosts in practice. For distros that distinguish Workstation and Server variants (ie, Fedora, Ubuntu), this is easier to solve than those that don't (ie, Debian, CentOS).
@jcutting The amount of times I've been part of an org initiative to kill user web server directories because they so regularly had orphaned, outdated, and/or potentially malicious/non-public content is a very non-zero number. IMO, Nextcloud shares are an all around better (albeit not perfect) alternative for most things.
@alcinnz isn’t IPFS deeply rooted in the Web3 ideological circles (at least all the proofs of concept, current implementations, and whatnot along with the people behind it?)
I think IPFS doesn’t need or require blockchain to implement but all major implementations are also on blockchains as far as I know, which starts running into resource abuse at scale (water, electricity, etc.).
It’s certainly been a minute since I looked at it, so maybe there’s sounder implementations?
Side note regarding my wish for peer-to-peer static-file hosting I want to see actually take off & be widely integrated into operating systems: The "cloud-native file formats" I'm seeing hyped in the GIS space recently can play very well with it!
These are formats organized such that clients can request bytewise-slices of the file to download just the data they need.
I'm little surprised this is treated as a new thing since video has been doing it since forever, but I welcome it!
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