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I really by and large have mostly lost faith that anything short of a miracle will get to where I would like it to be, and the forces working against success here are just hard to even look at

I support the groups that are trying to define a way forward, and I suspect in many, many ways the battle is lost until and unless one of those efforts succeeds well enough to define a better way forward, and there's no way to know what that would look like or if it is even possible.

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hrefna OP ,
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There are several people doing very good work in this field still and they may get us there either in part or in whole... eventually, dragging everyone kicking and screaming into a better model of development and of thinking. comes to mind as an example.

But as a vision or as a community I don't have much hope unless something dramatic changes.

That makes me sad and I've lost more and more hope the more I've dealt with it or the more I've seen.

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fair interpretation, but i wasn't referring to "the FOSS community", which i agree isn't really a cohesive entity.

i think the potential of the fediverse comes from the ability for affinity groups to create interoperable platforms and possibly cross-community solidarity. i'm excited for the possibility of new paradigms of social organization to bloom in the chaos of the fediverse. i appreciate the potential contributions of the distributed systems people that are on the network now, but mastodon didn't make the network blow up through any kind of technical prowess or vision. they had a marketing budget.

(i would add, i'm not trying to have an argument with anyone. if you think that's what's happening i'm sorry, but i'm not going to have a conversation in that format. i'm just sharing some thoughts.)

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