FYI I got the demo spun up this week!

https://oasis.circuitforge.tech/

making things fool proof is that fools are quite ingenious little buggers.

That’s my specialty! My goal with my projects has always been to lower the barrier to entry while compromising as little as possible on things that matter. I remember everything Google and Apple built before they started dumbing it down and removing features. I remember how much effort went into onboarding users and making sure people could adopt things easily. It didn’t always work, but I’ve been very successful in making my entire de-google’d stack useful to my own family.

The hardest part is done, now I just need to make it replicable for others to spin up their own. If you’re interested, I’ve got a repo scaffolded but I haven’t published the actual stack installer yet: https://git.circuitforge.tech/Circuit-Forge/turaco/issues

Saying it’ll never happen and giving up won’t make that 2% get any bigger

Make the tools easy enough that the irritation of the original platform gives them enough of a push to try something easy to use.

If you want to help beta test, I’m working on an appliance-level automated installer for provisioning home cloud servers.

Got friends who need help? Help them or send them my way (or to your nearest techie)

Decouple people from big tech, allow people to run, fix, and maintain their own hardware instead of replacing it on an industrial scale every 6-9 months and centralizing ownership in data centers.

My entire stack runs off a 14kw solar array with a battery. Net negative. It’s totally doable.

Edit: also I tested my stack against a stimulated 1k active users and couldn’t get it to break a sweat, so I’m not saying everyone needs to do things this way, but your techiest uncle could host the entire family in a privacy cooperative, for instance