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astrojuanlu

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On a mission to accelerate the Solidarity Economy through technology ♻️

Product Manager and Developer Advocate by day, rants about bad UX in F/LOSS by night. In love with SciPy, PyData, and all things Python. Luddite. Trying to make a positive impact.

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smallcircles , to Random
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I don't fully agree with all that's in the article "Open source is neither a community nor a democracy", but I think its good if in general there was better distinguishment between i.e. "The Work" vs. FOSS creators i.e. "the workers". Too often when we say "FOSS" we implicitly refer to some imaginary homogenous culture, and derive expectations on the moral/ethical behavior in a "community" that doesn't actually exist.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-is-neither-a-community-nor-a-democracy-606abdab

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astrojuanlu ,
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@smallcircles I somewhat disagree with the whole premise that "community implies that we're all participating on some degree of equal footing", seems like a strawman to me (or maybe large parts of the world do understand it in that way, but I think he extrapolates entitled users too much). The rest of the post has indeed some good points. I 100 % agree with your 1-toot summary.

maegul , to Fediverse
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Decent Decentralisation

https://berjon.com/decent-imaginaries/

Good counter to the focus on protocols.

> a protocol needs to achieve two things: it needs to prevent the accumulation of power imbalances between parties … and it needs to make it easy for users to cooperate in building the the rules they want for how the protocol's operation affects them … the success of decentralisation and … of a democratic digital world rides not only on liberation but also on organising.

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By @robin

astrojuanlu ,
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@maegul @fediverse @robin This is a great summary:

> failing to build the cooperation layer leads right back to capture no matter how good the tool. That's why git is simultaneously an extremely successful self-certifying system and a failed attempt at decentralisation.

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astrojuanlu ,
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@otl @maegul @fediverse Yes, find the full article at the top of the thread

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