Notices by Alex Cendre 🌋 (alxcndr@mastodon.social)

@gabe @mayel @jjg @vfrmedia So I think there is an opportunity to have a bridge here.

Anti-capitalism and free software are a perfect match. I would love to see a critique of capitalism emerge from the FLOSS communities. But I would love as well to see anti-capitalists consider FLOSS as a good praxis, not only to fight capitalism now, but also for the post-capitalist era that we need.

@gabe @mayel @jjg @vfrmedia I feel the other way around. FLOSS failed addressing the bigger picture, that is, the source of all the threats against Free Software has been capitalism.

I saw people fight against DRM, against vendor lock in, advocate for federation against silos, build tech against massive surveillance. And yet, very few times I've heard anyone mentioning capitalism as the common denominator here.

Remember peeps, tomorrow (Saturday) is Karl Marx's 200th birthday!

Reminder that if you want a free, decentralized internet, and don't have any desire to get rid of capitalism, you've already lost.