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Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists.
And sadly many influential organizations in that space are not up to the task for putting their foot down.
@tante Libertarianism … Another idea stolen from the left, shoehorned into a hierarchical impossibility, then accepted as dogma.. The US just does this all the time, doesn’t it?
@tante It's infuriating to see how many highly educated people, not only on software engineering but also in science, are so completely disconnected from reality. Most of them will excuse themselves with a variation of "but I'm apolitical" which is ridiculous: for most of them, to remain silent IS a political choice, and one with heavy consequences to a huge part of society. In fact, they're "apolitical" only about topics that do not affect THEM directly, which tells a lot about THEIR believes.
@tante It's a bit crazy seeing some of the most prominent billionaires in the tech industry giving money to DHH's pet project. In his blog post about London, DHH described a march organised by Tommy Robinson as "heartwarming". Tommy Robinson is a right-wing figure in the UK, considered too right-wing by Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform political party (the UK's equivalent of MAGA). What a timeline we live in.
@tante DHH is weird.
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The F/OSS movement is full of people who think legal documents are magic pixie dust that will cause community behaviours. In reality, they are things that work for handling outliers when community norms are aligned with incentives and there is broad agreement on what those norms should be.
Until that's addressed, the most likely response is an AGPLv4 with the 'no fascists or other meanies' clause that no one can afford to enforce, adopted by projects that economically incentivise fascist behaviour and have community norms that do nothing to discourage them.