Aral BalkanMar 26, 2021
Whenever you say “but it doesn’t matter if X gets funded/sponsored by Google, Facebook, etc.” you’re basically pissing in the faces of those of us who would rather struggle than accept their dirty money and legitimise those surveillance capitalists or compromise our integrity.
Show threadCHE
@aral
Show us, please, "faces of those of us who would rather struggle than accept dirty money" from capitalists.
What did they do for living?
What do they do for different future? Did they establish cooperative with non-capitalistic distribution?
Did they invent and use non-capitalistic, interest-free money systems?
If they struggle, it is only due to lack of intelligence, honesty and will.
Mar 26, 2021 at 2:07pmWeb
Show threadAral BalkanMar 26, 2021
@che Here: https://small-tech.org. Now, kindly go fuck yourself.
Small Technology Foundation: Home

We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.

Show threadAndy Valencia ✅Mar 26, 2021

@aral @che

I like small-tech.org very much! Nice, clean web site (both in appearance, responsiveness, also in the underlying HTML). I was reaching for some of the same ideas, but coded in Python. Built upon BaseHTTPServer class, made many services, then refactored into some middleware:

http://sources.vsta.org:7100/chore/index

I write HTML/CSS by hand, so no Hugo overhead. And I don't find modern JS to need any extra layers.

chore: chore

Show threadAral BalkanMar 27, 2021
@vandys @che Thanks, Andy. Will check it out :)
Show threadCHEMar 26, 2021
@aral
Looks they) are really good people. Thanks. I didn't know about them. Their motivation is great!
Their efforts focused at important but quite narrow sector of economy. May be somebody struggles against capitalism at another field and also seeing them as capitalism collaborators)
Show threadVictor Gorsky-MochalovMar 27, 2021
@aral 👏👏👏 @che
Show threadCHEMar 27, 2021

@aral
I like you started you project as non-profit. I believe this is done as protection from possible takeover by corps and also as to show your good will. It is very evident how this is important for you. Same as for me.

Sorry, for my first retoot, it was a bit rough)
It is done a lot, but far from being enough.
I am with you... by 90% 😉

@marco
@douginamug
@danarel

Show threadCHEMar 27, 2021

@aral
I see you license your code under AGPLv3.
Could you check The Anti-Capitalist Software License
https://anticapitalist.software/
It sets certain conditions for labor organization, so private companies and corps could not use it.
With AGPLv3 corps still could use it and abuse it making software as service.

@marco
@douginamug
@danarel

The Anti-Capitalist Software License

A software license towards a world beyond capitalism.