maloki 🍵
So, I've been thinking. And you're all right. Neutral will never bring on change.
#FLOSS is riddled with the "we must stay neutral" mentality, this creates a problem in this space, it simply isn't safe for minorities to participate in a lot of the conversations.
This means being neutral isn't neutral at all.
Who's onboard to work on FLOSS from an anti-racist, intersectional feminist perspective?
Bunnot Gang :patcat:
@maloki I tried for years, well before the present uptick in extremely online fascism and their ~radical centrist~ enablers, but I got burned out and, in some ways, pushed out.
To me foss has always felt like a coiled spring aching with anticapitalist and radical potential, but so much of it (yesterday&today) is run by dipshits who are heavy invested in the status quo. & While I don't have a lot of faith... seeing actually-rad foss folks on mastodon is giving me some srs hope tho!
Dag Ågren
@maloki The problem I've had is that free software activists place software rights above all other rights dogmatically, and will not budge on this.
It is seen as more important to make software free to use for everyone than to stop software being used for evil. The tenets of free software explicitly encode this, and any license that tries to restrict usage by those who will do harm is seen as "not free software".
Dag Ågren
@maloki This is an ideological dead end that free software ideology has apparently chosen for itself, and I don't really see how it can get out of this without completely tearing out the foundations of the ideology, which I don't think many people are ready to do.
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