I hope this works out so much. Tim Berners-Lee even endorsed it! Unfortunately, a lot of these super cool ideas come with the limitation of needing a personal server. I think if we really want this stuff to happen, someone needs to start selling modem/router combos with a home server built in. You could add Solid, local media share, etc. by default, and it would be a great place to install Home Assistant or run a Minecraft server from.

Truee I feel like open source has really picked up recently and that makes me happy

Ok, that’s true. But what I’m saying is that you aren’t considering the value of convenience and user experience at all. It’s possible for those benefits to outweigh the downsides.

Also encryption wouldn’t prevent your first example

I would also argue that it’s “dumb and shortsighted” to not care about user experience, because then you lose the users and they go back to the unencrypted environmentally-disastrous service.

Why

To some, convenience matters more than intangible benefits. This is not necessarily dumb.

from a project of its size

Ok but you know that people don’t care about this part at all when they’re looking for alternatives to actually use, right?

I thought Linus didn’t come up with the name Linux