Not liking other alternatives, such as "Icecreaming" (too vague), "Drink your own champaign" (too posh), and "Eat the food you cook" (too long).
A definition may be:
> Self Delivery is a continual improvement method whereby the creator of a solution is also a client that uses it, gaining insight in how the solution conforms to stated needs, that are fed back into the design proces.
@smallcircles Guideline 11 of the Make TT Software section of #TrivialTechnology (https://trivial.technology/guidelines) captures a similar idea.
> Only add the features you personally use. Instead of adding all the features, simply leave open points into which one may add features themselves. If you do not use a feature, you do not know how one might want to use it, so instead empower them to add it themselves, for their own fork.
@smallcircles@toast I shared information about Trivial Technology with an author at Damaged Earth Catalog (https://damaged.bleu255.com/) too. It seems like there can be lots of mental cross-pollination between free software advocates, digital minimalists, and environmental activists.
Nice to see such a list. I bumped into many such manifesto's + projects over the course of years and recently thought "if only I'd kept a list". Many of these shine their light only on specific aspects of what likely will be needed in a more holistically sustainable approach.
In yet another link to The Photographer's Gallery, I found this project "The Image at the End of the World" showing a great diagram (2021) of "Less is more" #sustainable technologies.
The project focuses on finding alternatives that help bring down the carbon footprint of our networked environment. Diagram is a great way to visualise relationships to #Solarpunk#PermaComputing#MeshNetwork and connect to various communities and projects that exist.
> It seems like there can be lots of mental cross-pollination between free software advocates, digital minimalists, and environmental activists.
This. 💯
One of the things that is an area of both frustration and fascination to me is how similarly aligned grassroots movements by their social dynamics seem to stay eternally divided, splintered, fragmented and reinventing wheels all over the place. Many small fists punching different directions, with a weak resultant force.
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