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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Such communities would benefit from grant fund seeding.

As you know, intentional communities were very popular in the 70s and likely align themselves to your values already.

You might visit these and see if they might not provide a foundation for the work your hope to engage in.

I’m all for your vision.

I wouldn’t be reading stop tech if I weren’t.

But as you know… my goals are more humble: get everyone reading paper books and using flip phones and mp3 players and meeting in parks to play frisbee and kick hacky sacks

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately most intentional communities don't last very long and many are cult-like, overly collectivist or based on (what I would consider) wacky ideologies. There's a few that have lasted and seem reasonable but I haven't looked into them much yet and doubt I would be able to visit them. My ideal has some overlap with back-to-the-land movements but it goes further in that it strives to ultimately get away from the internet, cars, drugs and other modern tech. I'm not aware of any intentional communities specifically trying to do that.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    So… I long for this as well. But I haven’t even set aside one day a week… call it COLD TURKEY no tech day. I haven’t even done this.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    That sounds like a good place to start. Take it one step at a time. You can even start with just an offline morning a week. You said you like reading books so that's one thing you can do in those times. I'm sure you have other hobbies or tasks you can do that don't require digital devices.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    This is the hard work of creating a sensible balance.

    I use Lemmy because it lacks the predictive analytics and addictive features of the mainstream streams.

    What does your off-time look like? How much are you 1999 tech or earlier?

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