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Katja Lutz
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Altruistic anarchist, down-to-earth, independent hobby astronaut πŸ§‘β€πŸš€ and amazingly lively, passionate web developer in the stand against the technocrats. Also founder of nitropage.org, the FOSS visual website editor.

Did you ever successfully convert a Wordpress Maxi to Drupal? And if yes: HOW? πŸ™ˆ

Creating a successful FOSS CMS alternative has to be one of the hardest challenges to exist. You have four types of users:

1. Wordpress Maxis - As long as the majority uses Wordpress, they gonna stay with Wordpress.

2. The Wordpress-Fatigued - They learned to hate website creation and don't wanna touch it ever again.

3. The lazy, but Open-Minded - Will ask ChatGPT to build their website.

4. The true artists - Rather code their website from scratch.

So your target audience are the very few people left, who see the potential in what you are creating, which gonna mute you once you start talking about anarchism, freedom of speech and politics πŸ˜‚.

My foss captcha library so far has blocked all attempts by bots, but also all others. Finally I can code without interruptions.

#webdev

Even worse if you live in a country like Switzerland where $200 is roughly speaking equal to two hours of your work and are already used up by that two hours bootstrap meeting you had with that surely-not-perfectionist, looking-at-every-pixel, yet very pragmatist client. Meanwhile you try to suppress the memories of the 12 hours you used during the weekend to contribute to the foss framework, you gonna use to build the client website in 2 hours.

GM Crypto Enjoyers πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ

Stopping the technocrats would require to accept the inconvenient truth and almost nobody wants to do that.

Technocrats strive for a functioning society, anarchists for a responsible one.

Freedom in the sense of nature is attractive to very few educated people, because there is nothing an educated person hates as much as the thought of being an animal.

Replying to Avatar Ross Ulbricht

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https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99

I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.

"If DSP becomes known as a tool for disseminating that kind* of content, no one will want anything to do with it."

*harmful content

The principle behind this is "guilt by association", a reasoning that can be found very often in dystopian mainstream, but I don't think freedom technology should be guided by this reasoning.

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I wrote this german article last winter for a critical, alt-media, swiss magazine Zeitpunkt. Finally the time has come to also share it here πŸ₯³.

https://lufrai.org/blog/mein-weg-zum-frieden