Post #1978066
2026-04-19 14:46 UTC
@smallcircles
I’ve read down these various branches & have many many thoughts (and little time to pursue them all!)
As someone who is “not a coder” but who has been around since the dawn of the www moving in these spaces, I think FOSS has a very unfortunate weak spot in its foundation, that being the idea that “free” implies “without ownership” rather than “equitably shareable”. To be a little more concrete, we are waaay behind on community values and lean very libertarian.
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-04-19 14:53
@smallcircles software devs of any profit margin are raised and trained to have a product-to-market drive: ship, cash in, forget it, NEXT! My career work and when I reflect on it, my pro bono work in digital social communities has been all about dealing with what happens once engineering ships product and scrubs out, off to the next cash cow. A concise overarching title for my work is Technical _Client_ Services. I make product actually meet the users’ needs, cuz damn, you didn’t!