Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 72

Brutal and green.

Still gotta work on this plan for turning the Barbican into a permanent autonomous zone.

#london #barbican #solarpunk #utopia #brutalism

@gabe @mayel

FOSS & smashing capitalism; two great tastes that taste great together!

@vfrmedia @alxcndr

@alxcndr @vfrmedia @jjg @mayel @gabe

https://p2pfoundation.net/ is anti-capitalist and emerged from open-source practices in one way or another. Likewise FairCoop. Probly more, but those came to mind immediately.

@alxcndr @vfrmedia @jjg @mayel

Very valid points! I definitely don't think the blame lies on either side (or really anywhere).

I'm hopeful that the two will begin to overlap more and more, I'm just sad that it hasn't happened already.

@alxcndr @gabe @mayel @jjg @vfrmedia I seem to remember rms mention it a few times, I think his reasoning for not mentioning it more is that he wanted to pull in people of all strides, even fans of the current system, or proprietary software, and then convince them otherwise.

@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.

Consider all the projects out there pulling Javascript/Python/Ruby scripts from Github during install.

RVM in the Ruby world for example.

It's a bloody mess.

As others have pointed out one possible option is git-ssb:
https://social.coop/@bhaugen/100140415

For those #IPFS-inclined, there's some projects which help with rehosting and managing git repos over the p2p network

1 https://github.com/larsks/git-remote-ipfs
2 https://github.com/larsks/git-remote-ipfs
3 https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/mango-git-completely-decentralised-7aef8bcbcfe6

We're almost there

#FuckMicrosoft #FuckGithub #github #git #ssb

Today's news of Microsoft purchasing Github pushed my butt into gear. Set up a self-hosted #Gitlab instance in 20 mins or so. Works perfectly, painless transition thus far.

#FLOSS only exists as it does today because it is susceptible to future capture by capital. Its freedom is predicated on future value. As #Telekommunisten pointed out ages ago, decentralization, GPL, and relentless copying are forks off of this path. There are others as well.

If nothing else, todays events re-enforce the importance of creating, using and supporting free software.

#forkoff discussion proving very interesting.

I really hope that the actors involved can start to look to the motivations/interests of each other and think about if there is a way forward together, rather than a split.

Though having said all that - I think given the reasons for the split (differences over governance effectively) this could be a positive long term. Hope #forkofftogether peeps have a look at the #socialcoop model (nascent as it is).

#gottabeaway #platformcoop

To express my distaste, I've:

- Unfollowed all GitHub users
- Unstarred all GitHub repositories
- Made my profile URL point to GitLab
- Pinned GitHub alternatives on my profile

It won't make a large change, but even if it moves *one* person off of GitHub it'll be a long-term success.

People who "don't see what's the problem with centralisation" or "centralisation doesn't solve everything" are the same people wouldn't see the problem with a train running full steam ahead coming in their direction as long as they could make a profit from standing on the rails track.

Ignore.

Re #decentralization: it won't necessarily fix the economic system.

See libertarians and anarcho-capitalists.

We might get from-each-according-to-ability but we won't necessarily get to-each-according-to-need.

But I do think it is a necessary corrective at this stage and opens the field for more cooperation on better stuff.

What's the move on #GitHub and #Microsoft?

I'd really rather not use any Microsoft tools unless I really have to, but I know there are a ton of folks using GitHub and it's a nice way of connecting with people.

This is #Facebook all over again.