Moritz Bartl<p>"Ask yourself as an inhabitant of a <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/hackerspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackerspace</span></a>: how are conflicts solved in the community?</p><p>If the answer is, that it’s a normal thing, that you deal with small conflicts, middle sized conflicts and big conflicts in a more relaxed way, that in one moment people scream at each other, say things which are abrassive during the conflict, but then a mode of peaceful co-existence can be found and at the end of the day. Everybody goes home and knows that he is respected for who they are as a human being, with all their flaws, then you’ll likely have not an authoritarian community.</p><p>But the flipside is the authoritarian community, where you in the first place won’t have the right to speak up as you please. Because that could upset the “rules”, “the <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/awareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awareness</span></a> team” or simply the chairperson. And if you do say what you did or did something, which you know would annoy other people, maybe even out of protest, then threats will be used against you.</p><p>[…]"</p><p><a href="https://www.phantasus.at/2025/05/27/authoritarian-notions-and-hackerspaces.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phantasus.at/2025/05/27/author</span><span class="invisible">itarian-notions-and-hackerspaces.html</span></a></p>