Richard Stallman's account = #Guardian posts mostly...
+ lack of interaction
+ lack of action together
Do check it out the number of posts mostly from the Guardian like a forwarding machine!
@rms
#RMS... #Fediverse
Richard Stallman's account = #Guardian posts mostly...
@freeschool @rms I also try to mostly post excerpts and links to important research performed by people more competent than me
Is that a bad thing? Am I Mastodoning wrong?
Richard Stallman's account = #Guardian posts mostly...
@datum @rms
There is perhaps bit of expectation from the ranks of Stallman to do more people work
but even then the answer is:
YES to some level there is a wrong if social online is not really social and more broadcast website style for a movement or causes we clearly need to look to each other and not mainstream websites and the constant #shitshow (forgive my wording but it is a deliberate distraction like candy for kids or car crash TV)
So measurably speak if Stallman or yourself (respect to both is given) are just echoes or 90% of their posts are someone else's links... AND he doesn't reply or interact (there are way but they are knee-jerk rather than methodical) then he's doing broad-cast only / mostly.
Interaction is the key and frankly the time about Trump or causes with nearly 0 action we can do also need to be put aside for looking at each other and helping OUR things whatever they may be and after hit and miss WE CAN DO SOMETHING about those things in our life.
Take this from a veteran in trying... a lot are doing it wrong (according to their own goals and / or other fair measurements of what their about / ideas).
A short example is all the Trump posts and nothing (not even reply but people / fans to their posts supporting or questioning them)... it's like 0 reply down their profile (go ahead look at Stallman who doesn't even take my advice to add "I don't reply at all to people / hardly ever so I'm just saying so you don't waste your time and then get annoyed at me which is fair if I didn't put this notice"....
So instead (and added to this post) is that you get hate legitimately from people trying and trying... people not writing "I don't want messages" or "I judge you based on your name and flag" .... so in the end they actually tease people with thinking they can contact them (not just stars but imagine yourself retrying with MOST of the Fediverse as I have tested and finding Stallman-ish behaviour and not being clear)...
This is not a big moan. It's a constructive complain with logic and testing...
#Mastodon people or those in the #Fediverse (the collection of all different software accessing the protocol) HAVE A LOT TO LEARN and not just because I say so....
Happy to say more, because at least your responded (see how this works Stallman ?)
And @datum let me know how you're finding it - it can depend on who you are and goals... but basically I see humans being the vital thing to change, not more tech - as we have enough for basic communication, time to work on / with humans.
Computers do not do that (more than half on #Fediverse seem to be head down in computer-only mode for whole life, so now wonder we're in this human crisis across the board).
Again your thoughts (they help balance out my basic perception).
Thanks
Richard Stallman's account = #Guardian posts mostly...
@datum This is where I think I'm way ahead of you (because it's not a thought I didn't have before).
And how I measure it could considered somewhat speaking or thinking on people's behalf but that's what we're left with if Stallman's or anyone movement is about people or wants one of the people to rise up or do something between them- surely they can't mostly ignore them. lol
Simple as that equation.
Can't really magic around that too much even if I do say "ok I give up" in the end about wanting to help / asking questions / testing how this is actualyl supposed to be a MOVEment.
Writers etc, fine they make a work and then at the end the fruit. Maybe they don't want contact or pile or their time into a material object and like computer programmers overlook the whole 'people' thing. People change people, not even books sometimes, certain not so much all the code people do and redo constantly as another time hole.
So as far as Stallman and free software movement I've talk to him... he would talk about the topics he wanted in email (for example I numbered points 1/ 2/ 3) and he wouldn't even mention the others on reply - and then after a while I asked him "hey what about the other points" and again not much about that and continuing like they were not said or didn't exist.
That's a kind of fascism or ignorance or in-humanness for genuine topics (they were not lewd or about sex or anything !) that were just something quite straightforward....
So I conclude, again without calling names but behaviors that is a kind of illness or mental psychological thing, a closing of eyes or something very close.
People are a bit sick if we consider system similar to which their in and probably just following...
but educating people or outreach (for those that claim it) - if that doesn't involve people or do much even outside of Fediverse from the founders or me or anyone possible as a helper, then it's not a movement and even going backwards (again in might have been in earlier days or ust shows even then mostly could have bee a programming group but I'm sure Stallman has actually achieved a lot more and done a lot which is why I can't stand the silence on people work / changing people and not computers so much anymoe).
It's more psychological / emotional now (hence why people don't speak or try sometimes)
So when you get Stallman reeling off Guardian links - link after link from almost all the Guardian news, there is a lot of '"time" and simply just what people do and don't want to do (don't want to interact or do the shitty the people work and change egos). So again we come back to why Fediverse and lots of bourgeoise type comforts perpetuate stuff because NEAR-NOBODY wants to do the hard work (and honest work it is to listen and speak) and upgrade minds / process their crap to solving the world. Which system has installed.
IHe wasn't busy when I corrected him and you can see others are not busy - they are chat to others as you are and they simply dkip you... so it is selective and not always time while they are so fast - just a cover up for their prejudice or whatever etc which again would not be as bad if they said so.... !!
For example @markhburton writes in his bio that "I rarely engage with accounts where the user hides their name."
AS IF pseudonames never existed on the internet or that it's "hiding" in the first place!
And then if they did 'hide' name, to know why people hide their name (he's an activist for crying out loud! And therefore very close to stupid/hypocritical/uneducated if not knowing why an activist would hide their name - as an activist himself! sooo rubbish.
(oh but there "could be" other reason --- but he won't say). So stuff they are trying to do "good" work.
If people won't say it or try and 100 other things you have claim we're just far behind and not cut them too much slack... it doesn't help anyone to make up excuses for them.
I liked you wrote back and even gave testimony to writing people without reply / ignored - and maybe you're ok / happy with it.
I see it as also "it's not just what the bad people do, it's what the good people don't do".
Not saying why Stallman didn't reply to some of my topics in email and then others, or people saying how they use their account - is frankly weak or unskilled AND wouldn't take long to add it in their account to manage expectation / learn something from them - which stopped a while back with Stallman.
I hope you have higher hope than writing people unreplied !
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Richard Stallman's account = #Guardian posts mostly...
@freeschool thanks for your thoughts
I think I grok what you're getting at
I think there's an aspect of being a public figure that comes into play. Several famous authors have said they don't read or reply to mail or email because if they did they'd not have time to get writing done.
For people who are public figures, *I* think they're excused when they're not interacting, but rather just broadcasting, for that reason.
I still get much value from Long COVID researchers who can only post their papers and the occasional analysis of someone else's work, for example.
For you and me, Fedi is hanging with friends at kitchen parties. It'd be super rude of us to ignore someone at arm's length who says hello. Our use is a fully valid use, and probably much more rewarding! But physically impossible for people who don't have the hours in the day to open and read every letter.