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The fact you're looking at this on an ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse app demonstrates that a community of focused individuals can create a global-scale network around an open standard that rivals (or, frankly, beats) pretty much anything capitalism could create, even at its 'best'.
And these communities create without profit motive - just because they share a vision and think it'd be a good thing. All they require is sustainability, not exploitative profit.
I think that's worth celebrating.
@lightweight Exacrly. And now put yourself in the place of wealthy capitalists reading this, knowing it’s true, and hell bent on proving it otherwise with billions in their war chest and the threat we and these spaces face becomes clear. (And yet I still see folks celebrating every billionaire, venture capitalist, and Silicon Valley corporation that joins or otherwise expresses an interest in the fediverse as a win… like sheep celebrating the arrival of the wolves.)
People around #Mastodon used (still use?) to discuss on Discord instead of something like #Matrix, #IRC or #XMPP.
Mastodon itself is still developed on GitHub and so are third party clients and other related software.
And now with the wave of new users even more Mastodon-related projects run on GitHub and Discord.
It's not like Mastodon ever really joined the culture of #FreeSoftware and #decentralization but they used it to their advantage for one use case and that's it.
They will tell you that their choices were dictated by convenience, but convenience has always been a Trojan horse.
@post @aral I've already directly confronted Eugen about these inconsistencies (I also wrote https://davelane.nz/notslack), but felt a bit bad afterwards... we need to create a compelling catch phrase, like "Expedience isn't a principle. It's the *absence* of principle".
What about the catchphrase "Foo is not a principle-driven project"?
@post @aral often the 'easy' way isn't the right way.