Think Big, Shop Small, part 1

The Radioactive Kaiju in the Room The Why Real Example, Watching Media Your Version Actual Needs Media Box Requirements Flexibility More to Come It occurs to me that, for all the time that I spend implying that you should probably walk away from big companies (technology-wise and not) for independent and especially Free Culture counterparts, I haven’t laid out the whys and hows. I vaguely got into this in my post recounting my own move to Linux and broad advice based on that, and tried guiding people through Mastodon and then Mastodon again—leaning more heavily in the latter on improving the experience after you get there—but I haven’t pushed over to the broader idea, even though I may gesture at it often. This time—and most of my regular readers can probably already see this coming and might even have at least one foot in this world—I want to get more explicit and talk things through in more detail than “maybe try it.” The Radioactive Kaiju in the Room Brace yourselves. You should…