Only the last 30 seconds or so are not just scratching the surface. The general idea and its click-baity way to present itself on YouTube are mainly status quo affirming, if anything. In a hyper capitalist world, the pure number of people won’t change anything. Neither good but bad. Only the means of oppression and exploitation, and how intense they are applied, changes. At its core the problem is, that people are just used to make rich people richer. And as more and more gets funneled to the top, more and more people are living more constraint lives. Opening this discussion as an actual way to solve problems is just affirming the false competition between us.

The moral imperative of less people equals better also devalues human life itself. This opens the door for problematic worldviews and hurts the optimistic community-based idea.

Available in Germany for several months now and I never thought about actually trying it. There are many very good and more sustainable(!) alternatives available. But people are saying it really tastes quite the same. So congrats to the food designers at Ferrero.

Regardless of the arguable monetary value, capitalism as a system to allocate and distribute resources is such a scam. What a waste.

Where did you end up? I’m looking for a new home, too.

Great interview, thanks!

This is my personal key point:

Creating more democratic spaces in the workplace and guaranteeing the democratic participation of everyone in decision making processes. These are the ideas that might create some conditions for enriching or cultivating different kinds of desires instead of consuming more because you feel lonely and you feel stressed.

I think degrowth really needs to provide a more positive vision of the future because degrowth as such is just a negation of growth.

Looks interesting. Probably too much on the non-affordable side of things for normal people, I bet. But what bothers me most is the term collapse-proof. I get that they likely address the high level of autonomy. I would still rather focus on having a high level of adaptability and being a solid foundation to enable community-building instead. (end of optimistic rambling)

Personally, I have mixed experiences with the hashtag. But gonna have another look. Also a hashtag might not really be a community, in terms of what I’m looking for. But if people regularly run into each other over the hashtagged posts, then maybe it is.

This is wholesome and great 🙂 I’ll get the chance do to a lot more gardening somewhat soon and I’m looking forward to learning the basics. Probably great topic to get in touch with neighbors and build a small network, too.

Getting into local action is rock solid advice, good point. Not what I’m looking for right now, but good feedback.

This is cool, thanks

Sounds super cool, but still don’t know what bonfire does in practical terms. Can anyone elaborate?

Offline-first can be a lot, from my perspective. Just as yours and David’s example, an application that work without active internet connection is valid. But this is rather common and the classic way how applications just operated for a long time (despite the modern mobile apps, which have to pull some strings nowadays to allow offline access).

What I find more interesting is when a system or application overcomes the otherwise required network connection. So maybe offpunk (from above) is an example, A web browser which puts everything in a cache, so you can continue to read, if offline. But that’s a rather simple approach as well. The whole “opportunistic syncing” approach by Syncthing is also matching. It also covers some ground regarding resiliency. So another aspect could be resilience, meaning a connected system will not just survive a temporary outage of a node, but also continues to work as expected. Many distributed tools would probably count, even classics like git. ActivityPub based tools and the fediverse, on the other hand, are somewhat resilient, but not offline-first. Scuttlebutt would be though: https://scuttlebutt.nz/

Back to your examples: I think if a “simple local application” would do something we usually use network for, but technically don’t have to, this would also be interesting for me. An actual example might be: https://devtoys.app/

I got recently inspired by this, which also has its own definition of offline-first: https://gemini.tildeverse.org/?gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-offlfirsoch-2025.gmi (proxied from the Gemspace)

A key advantage of tools like obsidian is the local markdown data. So you can basically use this client until you don’t anymore. Then just move on, if you don’t use very specific plugins or something. So rather little risk here, in my opinion.

But other popular alternatives you might want to check out are logseq and Joplin.

Also same, in combination with syncthing to get it synced over multiple devices.