Late to the party, but worth resounding all the same. This exactly. My community’s corner of the internet, is very much seen as a cyber-fort of sorts, not just due to the sovereignty aspect, but as a safe space where the right to privacy is upheld. We started with on-boarding friends and friends of friends. But now? We’re on-boarding families. We’re exploring on-boarding smaller communities that cannot host their own infra.

Even if you’re in your 30’s or 40’s, we take technology and the internet for granted - But so many seem to not realize how we have all the tools we need to take power back, to ensure, in a verifiable way, governments work for the people and not the other way around. We just need to take action. And that begins with us. The practitioners of technomancy. The Homelabbers. The Infra gurus. Heck, all the rebels. We need to build censorship-resistant, resilient infra that shows every person has the right to, and is able to, hold their own data and solely share it as, when and if they see fit.

When it comes to decentralization and sovereignty it’s easy to think every**one **should host their own data, and while this would be the ideal scenario, this is also much harder to achieve, and at that thought we arrive and face a brick-wall - In which case, it’s important to accept TRUST through COMMUNITY and VERIFIABLE software. Communities CAN build a trust-model to host others’ data as long as the individual is not willing. And this is ok, it’s a stepping stone towards the ideal.