Post AuEGDXtBiDsIWXo7eq by stf@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #AuDic20py8gcSTtDBA by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-05-18T13:16:34Z
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Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end it altogether. Here I wrote up a bunch of things we are doing wrong, and what the open world could do better: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/
(DIR) Post #AuEGCxUp1KzfeY89gG by stf@chaos.social
2025-05-18T14:42:04Z
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@bert_hubert with all due respect. for decades now, everything i do is free software, i am a lone dev, who has no intention of having any of my outputs gain wide adoption, even worse, i believe wide adoption is something i try to avoid, it tends to clog up my abilities to do stuff, and instead i have to fix bugs implement features that are outside my original scope, i do free software because i want others to enjoy the 4 freedoms, not because i want to serve others. 1/n
(DIR) Post #AuEGD6PprFLvJgrneq by stf@chaos.social
2025-05-18T14:50:54Z
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@bert_hubert when you write opensource will fail if i don't care about UX, that is true if the goal is adoption. i have no such ambition, i have no resources to support wide adoption. i think we need to make a fundamental distinction between free software for the liberties, and this other thing that aspires to replace proprietary software lock-ins without users actually caring about the freedoms. 2/n
(DIR) Post #AuEGDEhV3SEh0nC1Im by stf@chaos.social
2025-05-18T14:53:50Z
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@bert_hubert i am cyber bourgeoisie, i truly want the cyber proletariat to rise. while the cyber capitalists want to have them stupid and docile (not even knowing what a file is) to exploit them, to lock them in. i think we are in a southpark scenario with the underpants gnomes:1. free software2. ???3. everyone uses/loves free sw.i am 1. who is gonna do 2? who is gonna pay for that? because clearly 2. is the one that needs to care about UX. and support, and maintenance at scale. 3/n
(DIR) Post #AuEGDNNcmigXvkxm4W by stf@chaos.social
2025-05-18T14:59:16Z
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@bert_hubert whether 2. in 3/n is possible based on free sw, is hinging on the answer to the q? how 2 finance customer support, UX, maintenance & the cost of keeping up with a rapidly changing (hw&sw) env (bitrot, planned obsolescence of hw, etc). this is expensive, which is externalised on the cyperproletariat by the capitalists using the surveillance marketing military complex (SMMC). we need to find a way to replace the SMMC with something that is respecting the ideal of free software. 4/n
(DIR) Post #AuEGDXtBiDsIWXo7eq by stf@chaos.social
2025-05-18T15:04:17Z
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@bert_hubert and that is the fundamental question, how do you replace the surveillance marketing military industrial complex with something that respects the 4 freedoms? while at the same time also upholds the motivation and quality of the devs working 2.? also how do you actually make the cyberproletariat raise so that they understand, enjoy and use the 4 freedoms?
(DIR) Post #AuEGDh97IMxpEYKTEe by stf@chaos.social
2025-05-18T15:12:11Z
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@bert_hubert or maybe i misunderstood, and i'm not part of this open world. or the 4 freedoms are just elitist shit?btw some of my projects i do aspire broad usage, but i lack the competence to do UI/marketing.
(DIR) Post #AuIcB6HaMBCzwsIXRY by gcvsa@mstdn.plus
2025-05-20T21:39:49Z
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@bert_hubert Thank you for this. I'm in the planning stages of a municipal civic communications system, and although I will not be actually writing new software, many of the same concerns exist. How do we build a viable, accountable, defensible, reliable, available, sustainable public system *that people will actually use*, especially a small-scale one, in the 2020s and beyond, without Big Tech?