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This is the point we disagree.
Small pockets of freedom can help, this won't solve the global crisis, but will provide for the communities[^1] the needed force. Also, this can help groups to better organize and waste the least amount of money, effort and mind these.
Doing nothing right now will not change anything, and doing anything, even the small actions is the starting point for the next thing.
I'll use myself as example, even knowing that this isn't the perfect one, I started with the homelab because Amazon stole something from me, and I decided the that was enough. Now I can see that the hardware is cheap[^2], software is pretty much everywhere, federated or open-sourced (even better if it's AGPL) and the next point is increase the range, for the smaller groups of people around the house, expanding for the neighbors to embark in this.
[^1]: communities in the physical sense. Group of people, talking in the garden of a common building. Not a digital community. [^2]: most of people that are in my cirle of friends have a old desktop, or laptop around that can be reused for a simple homelab for a tiny group (around ~10 users) for basic usage, so most of people don't need a Google Photos, Docs and such.