Post #3109620

2025-02-13 14:01 UTC

It's not about @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de , @seindal@mastodon.social — this is a fear campaign that's intended to send a very clear message to everyone in open-source and everyone who believes that technology might play any role in freedom. Their message is: if you don't want to be next, or don't have a sublime ops team to defend yourself, you had better take no risks and make sure that you keep your head down and comply, tow the line, remain silent. Just write your code and go home. Do not even think about raising your voice or letting your politics out. Everyone who says, "keep your politics out of my tech" is complicit in this same message to some degree. This is how opposition to populist fascism is silenced: fear keeps a sufficient portion of the majority from standing out lest they become the next nail to get hammered. Then nobody can say anything because they would stand out, all alone.

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@charlie@hachyderm.io 2025-02-13 14:01

Intriguingly, I think this also touches on something else: maybe people have an appetite for "free as in beer" because they hate "free as in freedom" and not because they're misers. Code is the product of creativity, creativity is the process of art and art is inherently political.

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@charlie@hachyderm.io 2025-02-13 14:14

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de just happens to be a shining beacon of hope for so many reasons that certain groups find hateful. I condemn these attacks. I dedicated my career to coding because of the hope and possibility that the World Wide Web presented when I first glimpsed it in the first half of the 1990's and I despise what it has become. I despise GitHub and the the corporate capture it embodies. I despise Copilot and the corporate capture it embodies. I'm here because I write good code that sometimes improves the lives of users and other human developers who take value and inspiration from it but I have no interest in having my work exploited for Microsoft's corporate greed. I have no interest in subjecting that creativity to US laws and the edicts of POTUS and SCOTUS. I know many people who would say the same and, for all of us, Codeberg represents hope against the perversion of a future in which we dreamed to participate. This *is* political. Simply being this hope is political.

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