Some years ago I decided to take my music streaming budget and make it my bandcamp budget. Now I have a moderately sized music collection that suits me, that I can listen to online or offline, and that makes me very happy!

For anyone else considering this: The best time to make a switch like this is (always) years ago. But the second-best time is now! In three years, it will be three years from now, and you can either be stuck in the same trap, or have made some real progress.

Awesome! No, I don’t think your first comment needs to be different. You explicitly mention taking an extreme limit in the second sentence. I only realized after our first back-and-forth that I was implicitly thinking of a more near/medium-term situation. Like, how do we get from here, now, to the longer-term world we could hope for.

So, that’s how I read the EFF article. But it’s of course OK, and (dare I say!?) possibly even good, that we talk about different views on this stuff! So, thanks :)

We’re talking about legality: it’s stuff like intent and responsibility that matters, not the technical details.

My point, and my understanding of the EFF article, is that we do need a law that establishes just who can be held responsible, and how so. But maybe you’re imagining a world where that question is moot—in a world where there’s no separation of users and providers*. That would be a world where no one gets rich from internet infrastructure, and I would enjoy that very much.

*Another typo?! Oof.

The key detail about federated social media is that even self-hosters are still providing content from others. That’s how federation works without* requiring a direct connection from every instance to every other instance. My instance can connect to yours to get your content, but also the content from all other instances that you federate with. And vice-versa.

So, I understand the EFF’s argument that, without section 230, I would only federate with extremely small groups that I trust with my full financial life. That would devastaie the open social web.

*Thanks for the good-faith typo correction!

Niagara, my beloved

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This is a good recommendation. I came here to also mention her series that starts with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. It’s far-future rather than post-apocalyptic, but it focuses on relationship and community building that might match what you’re looking for. I thought the characters, and their character-development, were really interesting.