Danielle ForéI’ve had so many conversations now with long-time very serious open source contributors and advocates from a bunch of different projects that all are basically versions of, “Are we still doing something worth doing? Have we become evil corporate drones but just poor and tired? Am I alone in caring about this?”
blabaere ✋🔼🤚We can’t forget our spirit of protest. The thing to do right now is double down on fixing the problems the capitalist machine won’t solve. Build for the least privileged among us. Build for old hardware, slow internet connections, disability, privacy, consent. Always remember that we can do things they can’t because we do this with genuine care for other people.
When we prioritize, remember to keep asking questions like “Is this fun?”, “Does this help?”, “Is this kind?”
stfn@danirabbit thank you for this, this is right on point. Those are the values I try to follow when writing my open source python library
ipsquiggle@danirabbit This is a really interesting view! Hmmm! I'm thinking about a kind of extreme (or not so extreme?) version of this where you literally make choices that are Probably Bad for "big software" because who gives a shit, they can fork if they want, and instead make choices that are fun and ethical. Neat!
オチュー (stop colonialism 🇵🇸)@danirabbit please be the head of firefox I beg you T_T
stgiga (they/them) 
@danirabbit At least MY web app runs on IE and doesn't phone home anywhere and can run offline no matter what.
Truth Collector@danirabbit The basis of life needs the capitalist machine. Sadly. So:
1/ I agree to 'protest' and practically have alternatives but basically banks rule the root and from that it's all bad.
2/ The people need circles to practice basic communication - it's like forums of the part - only we have #Mastodon etc but nobody developing the people using it.
They / you / we are JUST DEVELOPING #Tech
Dedicating to "social" interaction improves everything eventually. But nobody want to do that or...?