If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool.

[zkat@fedi.zkat.tech]

If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool.

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116574884823848136

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@zkat FOSS as a political movement is dead and gone. At most now, it's a practical decision about what I run on my machine and make available to others, but we need an actual pro-user pro-labor pro-art pro-environment political movement in computing, and stat.

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@xgranade @zkat

I really feel like the venn diagram of pros shouldn't be that hard to have, and yet...

So many weird "libertarian*" dudes, or "we're non-political**" stances, or "but we need it***" statements that just do not jive.

*always white, which means "free to benefit from supremacy culture
**this doesn't exist.
***this always means "we want it for free"

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@eldersea @zkat The "nonpolitical" one always has me seething. You can call out the racism and defeat it, but like... my nonbinary sibling in Lovelace, FOSS *is* a political movement, what the fuck do you mean "nonpolitical."

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@xgranade@wandering.shop @eldersea@expressional.social @zkat@fedi.zkat.tech the fsf is responsible for the birth of the second one btw