If you get bored, skip to slide 28.

I know it's hard to give new ideas a chance in today's internet, where our attention spans are constantly attacked. Despite the hostility of our systems, please try to persevere with this presentation. I believe there are some novel ideas in it which will fundamentally alter how we interact with each other.

Locally-hosted software is definitely important in the short term, but I think that distributed software will be enough in the long term. When everything is public, then there won't be the same risks associated with using networked software. In the long term, I expect the intermediaries to be public too.

But locally-hosted software should always still be possible. I included something similar as one of the core tenets in the repo where I outline an idea for how we get things going: "After cloning this repository, it should be possible to start a development instance of bartok with a single command." Based on your feedback I think we should tweak this to emphasise local use, because there's a distinction between using software locally for development and using it locally because you're using it locally. (https://gitlab.com/bartokio/bartok)

Which part of the argument do you disagree with?

Using Google Docs isn't ideal, and I didn't want to. However, I believe that the time has come that "ordinary people" (i.e. not HN readers) need to get interested in open source. I needed a solution that would be familiar and would definitely scale if the presentation got traffic.

The presentation is public domain.

Let's build a better open source alternative.

I always thought that artists would survive the longest. Silly me.

Word processing is hard and a lot of work. Better to improve existing solutions and maybe bring them to the browser as a service.

What alternatives did you try?

Nah.

He chose to use a service, something that contains software but is significantly more. He used a SaaS offering. That's not exactly unique, there's quite a movement towards using services instead of software.

I'm going to use an hour later today on using a SaaS which is basically open source hosted by the maintainers. Anyone can self-host that, hardly anyone does, because… because… I wish the presentation would go into those issues instead of rehashing the lost fights of the nineties.

I need to be able to make changes quickly in order to get this thing off the ground.

I'm iterating on this document using the God Mode policy: https://gitlab.com/bartokio/bartok/-/blob/main/foundation/Go...

You're welcome to propose to change it.

If you're interested in the ideas behind God Mode, here's a strategy article about gauntlets: https://gitlab.com/bartokio/bartok/-/blob/main/strategy/Gaun...

Once the internet takes over, my powers will be gone. There's no way that I could maintain control versus the combined intellect of 7 billion people.

Is this the best you can do?