But right now laymen have easy access to this stuff! That’s what’s amazing about it right? And it’s not like there are two categories in the world, laymen and experts. I am a great example of someone who falls in the middle. I have enough technological knowledge to get myself in trouble and hack away at projects, but I am in no way a coder or engineer. I am the kind of person that gets dropped from the pack when these things tighten up too much.

I can survive hugging face not hosting this stuff, but a number of my peers probably would throw up their hands and move on. And I don’t blame them, it gets exhausting fighting every single service in our lives trying to make it work for us. We eventually have to pick and choose. I don’t have time to jailbreak and hack together everything in my life. That’s why I have an iPhone and a more privacy focused/hardened, controlled Linux computer.

I don’t get why I’m having to defend my stance against barriers to entry here to be honest! It’s surprising