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I wonder if a community will form around this philosophy, and we'll end up with a new kind of Amish. Like in the year 2200, there's a group of people called the Seinfeldians who refused to use any technology introduced after 1998


It’s pretty much guaranteed. Live long enough and you witness the cycle of one generation’s legacy become taken for granted by the next, followed by rejection and rediscovery by each subsequent.


The kinds of people who'd use SourceHut and Gemini [0] and run a lightweight desktop Linux distro?

RMS is famously unbending in his refusal to use non-Free software. There aren't many like him though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)


There are the various Tilde.club and similar servers, and SDF.


Arguably the "new kind of Amish" are... just the Amish; they've continued to adopt new technologies when they comport with their particular values. Other intensional communities may have different values.

Love "Seinfeldians" :)





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