You don’t have to be wrong if someone else is right. Two contradictory things can be true at the same time.

In late May, 2022, I headed to Melbourne for the 20 year reunion of my final year high school class. Our final year was composed of around 200 students, all boys of course. What could people have done in 20 years? What could change?

In the Wild West of the modern Internet, the people must be able to wield (ie. run) their own infrastructure. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution allows the populace to control their own destiny in self-defense against both the wilderness and authoritarianism; in a similar vein, controlling our own infrastructure (email, social networking etc.) allows us a form of self-defense against monopolization and monetization of the Internet by big players.

Keeping concerns separate in software is a key step on the path to reusability, as a company I was at before 2013 learned, when a desktop web app suddenly needed to become mobile-ready.   The desktop web app had significant business logic in UI components, which was not feasible to duplicate 3 more times to support mobile web, iOS, and Android.