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Ok, I thought about it for a while & it still frustrates me that FOSS communities oft motion at underlying philosophy where--should they succeed--it would be extremely leftist results & highly disruptive of status quo (good). But they basically refuse to think about that! (bad).Permalink On twitter.com
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Maybe someone has already written about this? Like, software is divided up into ultra capitalists like Gates and Jobs vs philosophic radicals who position software as the key to fundamentally disrupting status quo, and they basically operate the same and that's weird right?Permalink On twitter.com
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Like... I dunno, it sorta *matters* if you're going around being like 'software should be about making money' while you take a salary from top tier surveillance capitalists? We all have to live in a society etc...Permalink On twitter.com
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But it makes sense to think about how to make these spaces welcoming for the type of people needed to actually be revolutionary... who can't afford to hold the same principles as you... right?Permalink On twitter.com
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What got me thinking on this is like... we're maybe ~2 months in to people switching from Mastodon & I'm already seeing instance admins looking burned out . You can't revolutionize the world with software if you are burned out and t/f ... we need better ways to *make a living*.Permalink On twitter.com
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The point of like.... mutual aid for example.... is that it is *reciprocal* but we expect people to just *give* open source software and maintenance, moderation and admin work for.... uhhhh "revolutionary vibes" I guess?Permalink On twitter.com
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Graeber's opening criticism sits well here: "in our society, there seems to be a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it." That's *not a good thing*.Permalink On twitter.com
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This feels like... a really obvious criticism? I'm sure I'm not breaking new ground here. Have people written about this? Suggested solutions? Offered longform criticism? Links please.Permalink On twitter.com
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Like if the turn to Mastodon becomes "a handful of people get to moderate 1% of Twitter users for no pay" that's... gonna fail. I mean... even if it doesn't fail... philosophically shouldn't it?Permalink On twitter.com
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Mastodon isn't really built or intended to "replace" Twitter of course. But it is intended to *disrupt* Twitter in a very specific neo-liberal-SV-capitalist way and if it was successful in its current form and everyone was happy that would be a wild shift in the status quo...Permalink On twitter.com
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Perfect success for Mastodon in its current format would mean literally erasing a lot of money. Market cap is silly, but still, >$41 B is Twitter's Q1 market cap. That's a lot of value Mastodon proposes to at least supplant a decent amount of w/free software and free maintenance.Permalink On twitter.com
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*Twitter's end of last year / last reported market cap actually, not Q1, sorry about that.On twitter.com
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