I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be

Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching