Fuck AI

Was thinking more paid remote services are almost always something that'd be better done locally.

For free remote services, Idk. Maybe. I used to think there should be a public option for most things: email, 5GB storage, radio, social media, etc. Through that lens using free remote services was just settling for the lack of a public option. My experience with lemmy has kinda shifted my views on that. Small lemmy instances are like a person doing a service for their community (which happens to be federated with other communities). When federated the costs are low and these sorts of public-good things really ought be funded by endowments that are easy to build with low costs as the communities slowly grow. I'm not sure how that should work with email or storage or if it's right to expect individuals to associate with one community or another to obtain them -- but,I don't really trust the government or large corporations to handle the public-good responsibly.

Yeah, I just don't know what the right answer is for everything, but I like the individual / non-profit federations model for a lot of small cheap things.