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Our dependencies are our vulnerabilities and we can not afford to not use computers. That life is gone.
I suppose you could start firing up alt nets like Freenet or like meshnets and the like assuming the worst happens to the clearnet.
Freenet...
Freenet is called Hyphanet these days, for the unfamiliar.
They control so much of the ecosystem of our lives, though. How much disconnection is possible before it becomes harmful? Will it be possible at all in the near future? I feel like I've watched this emerge slowly in the last 2 decades as people willingly adopt these tech dependencies, myself included, though more cautiously, despite all the warnings. We should not be empowering companies that are willing to hurt us and we've gone and done exactly that over and over again. They clearly use leverage to force concessions and we're giving them more with every dependency. No wonder they trend toward monopolizy.