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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 15:47:29 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Heather Buchel
   • Anna E. Cook

   @annaecook @hbuchel You can’t build solid stuff with unethical business models. The products of surveillance capitalists are complex because building planet-scale factory farms for human beings is complicated. If you removed the need to exploit and extract from people, the resulting tools would be radically simplified. e.g., see Kitten https://kitten.small-web.org and the Small Web https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/ based on the Small Tech principles https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

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   • Anna E. Cook (annaecook@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 15:47:30 JST Anna E. Cook

     Tech companies like to stack on layers upon layers of functionality instead of making the basic product that is promised better.

     Then there becomes so much bloat in a product that it becomes impossibly complex.

     I just want us to focus on just building solid stuff.