Well this is why I think small local models are the opportunity of a generation. Because it’s a bit transgressive these days to say you don’t need a big centralized service that spies on you and requires a subscription. It’s not the absolute best, but it’s yours.

I agree in general that we technical solutions to social/political problems are suboptimal. But technical solutions don’t require the political system to work, which is a very attractive property at a time when politics seems broken.

There is a counterpoint that retreating into technical solutions only cedes more ground and makes things worse, and for that I don’t have a good reply other than the fact that life is short.