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blue_berry Aug 27, 2023

Do you think opensource + Fediverse will develop into some kind of political force/movement in the next years?

Do you think opensource + Fediverse will develop into some kind of political force/movement in the next years? - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3932795 [https://lemmy.world/post/3932795] > I thought about this already for a while and with Lemmy and Mastodon the opensource community has a place to really try itself out and coordinate. Then even things like open-source planning-systems (like at Amazon) and AIs are possible. > > At least in Germany there is currently no really political movement that could be described as left-libertarian at least seriously. Maybe the Fediverse could be the root for something like that. > > Or will the Fediverse will become more like the new landscape of the internet, which encompasses everything and in which every party will need to move and have a certain stance to somehow?

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poVoq Aug 27, 2023

As others have alluded to here… the idea of internet activism as a political movement kinda burned itself out with the rise and fall of the Pirate Party; at least for most of western Europe.

Lots of interesting lessons learned can be drawn from that if such a thing were to be ever attempted again, but at least for now the Fediverse remains solidly in the “infrapolitics” space. We have a community about this here: slrpnk.net/c/infrapolitics

Infrapolitics - SLRPNK

Infrapolitics is to politics what infrared is to light. Its domain encompasses the acts, gestures, and thoughts that are not quite political enough to be perceived as such.

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blue_berry Aug 29, 2023

I think its really a pity that the pirate party lost its steam, because it was left and also really anti-authoritarian (at least I think). However, I think the Fediverse could become political or at least societal really relevant, because I think there is a strong interrelation between how our social networks are build, therefore how we act in them and from that how we act as social beings in general. I think federated social networks could have a positive effect here and also maybe give the pirate party some steam again.

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poVoq

The Fediverse is political, it just isn’t directly represented by a political party or similar movement with political ambitions.

In a way that is good, because it allows us to slowly shift the Overton window etc instead of becoming a target of polarization and political manipulation like the PP did.