Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 32

"I sold my users' privacy to a larger benefit," Acton told Forbes. "I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day."

Isn't it a bit late to be sorry, dear mr. Acton?

https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-cofounder-i-sold-my-users-privacy-with-facebook-acquisition/

Found a Stack Overflow question that matched my problem with no answer. Figured it out on my own, started to write an answer, but stopped, because SO has been unwelcoming to me before. We all lose out on knowledge when you make some people feel unwelcome.

Happy birthday to GNU. This is the original announcement of the GNU Project, posted by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html

"The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself... if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory." - Robert Pirsig (2/2)

@bhaugen @mayel you might want to take a look into the work of Arturo Escobar for the community participation design.

@mayel Keep your eyes open and listen to the complaints.

The dynamics when a member of an oppressed group complains in general about their relative oppressor group are very different than when a member of an oppressor group complains in general about an oppressed group.

E.g. ain't no such thing as reverse racism. The dynamics and meaning are totally different.

This often makes CIS white males (like me) very uncomfortable.

We inherit a lot of evil. Need to end the evil, not feel guilty about it, though.

There's a lot of customer culture attitude in Mastodon-the-community, where people treat Gargron and other devs, the instance admins, moderators, etc. like service workers. It's a spoiled, entitled attitude, where "the customer is always right" and it's okay to be abusive or demeaning to people providing a service when they don't give you what you want.

The fediverse isn't a corporate model. When you're rude or demeaning to someone here, you're being abusive to volunteers building a playground

I'm looking for information, guidance, organisations, all about the governance of FLOSS. Please boost.