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Depends on how much do you want to tradeoff on this.

The "easiest" way will always incur in some extra files, or unused shite. When I started, Bootstrap were the only acceptable thing, yesterday were Tailwind, and soon will be "what the AI spits on your face"...

So, a custom styling will always be "best options", but this depends on your level of understanding on the web, and if CSS isn't on your bucket list, leave for the ones that have this on the bucket list.

(Sorry for not having a silver bullet for this)

This is the point we disagree.

Small pockets of freedom can help, this won't solve the global crisis, but will provide for the communities[^1] the needed force. Also, this can help groups to better organize and waste the least amount of money, effort and mind these.

Doing nothing right now will not change anything, and doing anything, even the small actions is the starting point for the next thing.

I'll use myself as example, even knowing that this isn't the perfect one, I started with the homelab because Amazon stole something from me, and I decided the that was enough. Now I can see that the hardware is cheap[^2], software is pretty much everywhere, federated or open-sourced (even better if it's AGPL) and the next point is increase the range, for the smaller groups of people around the house, expanding for the neighbors to embark in this.

[^1]: communities in the physical sense. Group of people, talking in the garden of a common building. Not a digital community. [^2]: most of people that are in my cirle of friends have a old desktop, or laptop around that can be reused for a simple homelab for a tiny group (around ~10 users) for basic usage, so most of people don't need a Google Photos, Docs and such.

Sadly the post isn't about this.
I do discuss the work-life balance, the egregious ways that big tech and major companies robs people from their lives. My focus is to provide a bigger area for the "federated way", even knowing that using this term is already wrong...

But I mostly agree with you, just can't see how coop will solve the deeper structural problems, will solve some of the problems, not all of the problems.

I couldnt have said this better.

I have never heard of NymVPN... and I'm impressed (I'm using a similar type of VPN), it's interesting to see that more and more people are moving to the decentralized networks.

The crypto acceptance if a wierd point, since crypto for me is always a scam until it's not. So the moment I saw the crypto thing I was like: "ohhh nice, another scam....", but it's closer to the freedom of nation option instead of the scam attempt.

But this is still a centralized thing, what I want is the Onion routing, but people invested in this should have a better degree of control, instead of pure anonymous users. But this is the tug of war in this (privacy vs control), the more private it is, the less control you have over it, and, to be honest I don't know which point would be the best in this scale.

This is yet another solution for the money problem, but my focus isn't on the money, but on the "who actually have a say" on the direction, and focus.

For sure, I would prefer national money over venture capital every day of the week, and twice on Sunday, but the problem is on the governance and not on the economics.

No. I think you lost the context. I would recommend to read also the links n this post.

What is your definition of “free live”?

Protocol solves this issue. And reason why takes so long for a protocol to establish.

Almost the point, I don't want to fragment a system, I want to federate then. Make more people using the system, focus on the protocol and make the system better. For example, Piefed, I'm writing this on a alternative face of the system, but because this is a federated, I don't need to use the official front. At the same time, I focus on the showing the system for more people around me, and expanding it's userbase (and money, but I was focus on the human instead of the money).

I looked into it some time ago, it was part of my initial discovery. But (maybe because I didn't went deep enought), felt too much like losing power, when I want to give power to people, if possible in my lifetime (which isn't a lot)