Decouple people from big tech

I’m not making fun of what you’ve said, and I’m not talking down to you. That said, I like where you’re going, but that will never happen. You can mark it on the calendar: ‘That irmadlad asshole said - never happen’. On the one hand I applaud you loud and clear. On the other hand, we live in a global consumerist society. Corporate is just giving them their fix. That’s their plug.

My entire stack runs off a 14kw solar array

I have solar too. Hell I have solar on two barns. I like it. I often think about how far along we might be here in America if a lowly peanut farmer had not been ridiculed beyond belief for putting solar on the white house. Now, they were not what you’d call efficient, but it was a start. I think the next presidency took them down.

but your techiest uncle could host the entire family in a privacy cooperative, for instance

Oh no doubt. I’ve long since been a promoter of the notion of a server in every home. We live in a digital society. We have digital assets. These need to be centrally housed on a very secure server and backed up.

However, self hosters and homelabbers make up <2% of the world’s population. It gets even less if you differentiate between consistent homelab/self hosters and those who were just experimenting. Yeah, we do it, but not on a massive scale to even make a ding. Again, I like where your head’s at, but it’s not us we need to convince, it’s them. And they like their crack. Corporate likes their money.

I mean, I’m not saying give up. Keep pushing. But realistically, we’re in a script.