𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :labrys-45-sickle: :nyxcat: on Nostr: I think of this as being an instance of a much broader societal problem of people not ...

I think of this as being an instance of a much broader societal problem of people not being proactive about organizing themselves, or taking it very seriously in general, and viewing such questions as being inconvenient politics that no one wants to deal with. there is a prevailing individualistic mentality that formed the foundations of the early F/OSS movement(s) where everyone is simply making software for themselves and releasing it out into the world if anyone else finds it useful, which in such a context where everyone knows how to program and is engaged with the software on that basis is all well and good, but that's no longer the world we live in.

I don't think it's any better to foist the responsibility of organizing onto a bunch of unpaid developers either though, and this is another broader problem of free software people seemingly not caring about or listening to their users very much but chasing after a hypothetical market share that can only be acquired by copying whatever corporate software looks like. there's been this ever widening gap between the users of the software and the people who write it, and increasingly many users have very little technical competence despite computers being far more ubiquitous than they were when Linux was first released.

idk this is something I could only really elaborate on meaningfully in a whole blog post (evergreen nyx statement =w=)