<![CDATA[I’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?]]>I’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?”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/4c3f47ee-27e6-48d9-8452-fe1d218fe78a/i-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-doingRSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 11:52:33 GMTFri, 05 Jun 2026 17:30:14 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I’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? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:06:12 GMT]]>@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!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/ipsquiggle/statuses/116699298032600101https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/ipsquiggle/statuses/116699298032600101Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:06:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I’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? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:49:49 GMT]]>@linuxgnome @danirabbit Exactly. Big institutions don't have a consistent track record of getting things right, but they *do* periodically course correct out of necessity when the enshittification gets too stanky to ignore any longer. And every time they course correct, they come to us, because we're the ones out here doing it right, even if we're broke.

I think that's just the long arc of it. I've come to see what I do, what the people around me do, as being like seed libraries, or in the most dire outcome, like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Maybe it's just a handful of people who care today, maybe it feels like nobody wants you, but eventually everybody will need you. And on that day, it'll matter a lot that somebody was maintaining society's backup options.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://raphus.social/ap/users/116366479330331657/statuses/116699233619294676https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://raphus.social/ap/users/116366479330331657/statuses/116699233619294676Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:49:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I’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? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:01:33 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.stfn.pl/users/stfn/statuses/01KTCF53YA4MD573M30TQHMWRNhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.stfn.pl/users/stfn/statuses/01KTCF53YA4MD573M30TQHMWRNFri, 05 Jun 2026 18:01:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I’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? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:42:25 GMT]]>When we prioritize, remember to keep asking questions like “Is this fun?”, “Does this help?”, “Is this kind?”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/danirabbit/statuses/116698732640816237https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/danirabbit/statuses/116698732640816237Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:42:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I’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? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:38:49 GMT]]>@danirabbit

Never forget that what you are doing is valuable. Institutions in Europe are now looking to OpenSource to remove the menace of techbros. Many will use elementary.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/linuxgnome/statuses/116698718479450510https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/linuxgnome/statuses/116698718479450510Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:38:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I’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? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:37:04 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/danirabbit/statuses/116698711647265273https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/danirabbit/statuses/116698711647265273Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:37:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I’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? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:34:49 GMT]]>@danirabbit There is no ethical code under LLMs or something

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/ap/users/116641905566359096/statuses/116698702806467060https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/ap/users/116641905566359096/statuses/116698702806467060Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:34:49 GMT