there is so much milkshake duckerry going on in foss constantly, it's quite something

good news everyone! there is now a feature-complete foss clone of a popular microsoft tool, with no ads or telemetry

[one day later]

okay so it turns out that tool was made by a eugenicist mormon extremist. don't worry, there's a fork now with all the slurs removed

[two weeks pass]

the maintainers of the slursfree fork have accepted $10M in vc funding and they're putting telemetry back in. here's a list of half-finished unmaintained "alternatives" that don't actually do the same thing

it sucks that by-and-large the only people with the necessary combination of motivation and free time to create and maintain "privacy respecting" software are well-off white libertarian weirdos
@muon FOSS seems like a good idea, but it was imagined to be self-sustaining in isolation from broader social movements, and it was also imagined it could subdue corporations with its clever licenses.
@foolishowl @muon
...and...?