And if you’re one of the people who can crack a beer open with the owners of Google, then you found your right community.

However, in the general case, I don’t think these count is any individuals communities. You can’t rub elbows with the people maintaining Google and Facebook. You can’t talk to them about issues you’re having, they’re not going to dynamically modify the system for special cases that are important to your community. A community is a group of people who know each other.

Right. I think the real vision isn’t that every single person self-hosts, but every community has somebody in it who does the self-hosting for the community. Everybody can be independent like villages instead of totally centralized like empires

Yes. Almost exclusively using crypto.

I don’t want reminders to donate again, I don’t want to be targeted in future marketing campaigns, I don’t want to receive political call to action emails as a ally.

I want to support and be done with it.