Post Az4khk7JldQvoFrYkC by hamishcampbell@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Az2k3xPAYUD77cK07k by mhoye@mastodon.social
       2025-10-09T18:44:44Z
       
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       Software is a collection of ideas and decisions that a person has turned into a machine. When it turns out that person has repulsive, noxious and dehumanizing ideas, it is entirely reasonable to not want the machines they've made in your life, or the decisions they've made affecting your life.It is entirely reasonable to object to their being part of communities you care about, and to object to their ideas and decisions being normalized or valorized.Nothing about this is complicated.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az3yXqJn3qmSLXuVFo by vikingkong@misskey.vikingkong.xyz
       2025-10-10T10:22:09.536Z
       
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       @mhoye@mastodon.social Nothing about this has anything to do with software.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az4khk7JldQvoFrYkC by hamishcampbell@mastodon.social
       2025-10-10T18:25:04Z
       
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       @cascheranno The composting moment, the thinking behind #FOSS has stagnated. The same “freedom” that opened the door to collective innovation also let capital appropriate the commons. Corporations learned to exploit open code while ignoring its intent, twisting licenses, and capturing communities. This is the #GeekProblem: confusing technical brilliance with moral neutrality, mistaking openness of code for openness of culture.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az4khl4WDWmwlrYq1I by hamishcampbell@mastodon.social
       2025-10-10T18:26:02Z
       
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       @cascheranno The solution is not to abandon #FOSS, but to rebalance it. We need to compost the sterile individualism that crept in, nourish the soil with social values - trust, care, shared governance, and humility. The #OMN and #OGB projects try to do this by adding a democratic layer of governance to our infrastructure, bringing social accountability to technical openness.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az4khmINfTTGZ93QGW by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-10-10T19:22:53Z
       
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       @hamishcampbell @cascheranno Seems to me the problem is neoliberal governments, and the missing piece of the puzzle is the need to identify #libre software / #FOSS for what it is, critical (digital) infrastructure and fund it accordingly. And 'public money = public code' where the way it's made public is *copyleft*, not weak open source. Then communities can compete on a much more level playing field with the current proprietary loci of control.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az4khqnMwCdSWPaE7c by hamishcampbell@mastodon.social
       2025-10-10T18:26:50Z
       
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       @cascheranno If we keep it #KISS - simple, human, transparent - we can rebuild code as commons again. Not as ideology solidified into control, but as cooperation solidified into action.Because yes, software is ideology made machine, but that means it can be reprogrammed.