Are you fucking kidding me?
Jack Dorsey is a main track speaker at FOSDEM this year:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/
I am at a loss of words. I also owe sincere apologies to everyone flagging issues with FOSDEM over the years, whose concerns I often somewhat minimized. I am sorry, you were all right and I was wrong.
FOSDEM is now explicitly platforming AI/blockchain bro fascists.
@rysiek I was quite shocked when I learned about this and still processing it. It is beyond me why people like Dorsey are invited to Fosdem, a platform for communities that are (ostensibly) completely opposite to pretty much everything Dorsey stands for.
@wbftw the answer is painfully simple: money.
@rysiek Not arguing with you at all, but genuine question: what's changed, why do they need more money this year? I understand why Dorsey would want this (public appreciation and respect is like catnip for these assholes), but since when is Fosdem about money (admittedly it's been a few years since my last visit)?
@wbftw it's always been sponsored by Big Tech. Nothing's really changed, apart from Dorsey's new scam company becoming one of the sponsors. Thus getting Dorsey a slot on the main track.