This is what I think as well. Most work done locally, some heavy stuff offloaded to the cloud. Hopefully soon, since the environmental aspect of it is crazy.

But people who don’t see the value of it as a tool will have a wake up call at some point.

ITT: people thinking that people already on the fediverse are the ones that the EFF needs to reach

Exactly 10 years ago I was coming out of a terrible relationship with someone who was a… sociopath? Psychopath? Doesn’t matter as they didn’t believe that mental health issues were real anyway. Fortunately they were only checks notes a doctor .

But I was about to meet someone who I’d have a fling with. A 10 year-2 kid-2 house-1 dog deep fling so far.

The questions is the worst baby name

Just to add to the answers that the sort of thing you are talking about exists. It’s called low code, with companies like Outsystems and Mendix.