Don't let the doomscroll get ya. Turn thinking upside down, shift perspectives.
We have GREAT OPPORTUNITY now, thanks to #BigTech and #AI
Let's grab this chance. Help bring #Humanity back by our #commons based efforts. We can #CocreateOurFuture and provide to #society as a collective. ️
Talking biz terms: Huge market niche is wide open. To offer real human-to-human connection.
Supported by a true #SocialWeb.
Developer: "The users of my app .."
Cook: "The eaters of my cookies .."
Weaver: "Yes, my audience are the wearers of my clothes .."
Tech currently does not support society. It destroys it.
If you make your hobby your work, then don't forget to also make your work your hobby.
We rightfully revile Silicon Valley style techbroism as we take moral higher standpoints, stick to our values.
Yet in our total rejection of #techbro culture, do we fail to learn from it? SV outperforms #FOSS under #hypercapitalism. #BigTech is winning. We must improve our fitness formula to catch up.
Is where SV #culture differs that folks from across the globe totally dare to unleash creativity? While fedi sees ideas usually followed with techies-impl-talk?
#Social is the way people would prefer to treat each other, when they know that that will result in people treating them like they would prefer to be treated.
Don't you sometimes get exasperated when witnessing so many of the discussions on creating a better fedi, that deal with crazy technical bandaids for the wrong tools we built. Microblogging sticky note exchange.. and how do we feature-add to that until it supports society? Isn't that the ultimate Golden Hammer anti-pattern, really?
If a peopleverse is where online technology serves people's needs in their daily lives, can we we imagine one? Can we evolve that?
Othering. Fascists do it. To create distance between groups of people. To make us not see each other anymore. This alienation lends them power.
At social coding commons Sirius posted his article "Do we need new #SocialMedia?" (in German)
https://bildung.hypotheses.org/6230
It occurred to me we must avoid othering at all levels. To increase 'social bandwidth'.
And that starts with avoiding the word "User".
We aren't users! And advertisement giants shouldn't administer global society!
#ActivityPub: Note-based #interoperability protocol with custom property-based business logic injection. Be an implementer, it feels like magic.
Our modern society is built on a #technosphere, where #SocialMedia facilitates our communications and how we interact. #FreeSoftware plays a huge and important role in facilitating all this.
Then merely musing, should #SoftwareFreedom not be considered to be just as nuanced as #FreedomOfSpeech? Are the four #FOSS freedoms reasonable, or are they akin to #FreeSpeech absolutism?
In an analogy to cell biology, does #FOSS represent primordial soup? Or does it form organisms, with organs and skeletons that evolve? Is it maybe even an intelligent organism, aware of the world? Is a single FOSS project an autonomous cell, involved in protein exchange with its environment to sustain itself? Or is more like RNA viral matter, used for good and bad purposes, gratis. #sx
#FOSS. Have times changed? Working in public favors the good AND the bad actors. Where nowadays the bad actors are winning bigly, and in huge part by using all that is in the public.
#FOSS = free software + *gratis* contributions ???
There is the well-known saying "if you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail".
We find this quite obvious, and think people who fall for this anti-pattern are foolish.
Yet here we are in our #hypercapitalism-encased little global world, measuring *everything*, all value, every transaction in monetary terms.
How is that not the bluntest, dumbest hammer, and most ignorant way to misperceive value of life?
To what extent is the #FOSS movement with all its working-in-public complicit to the rise of techno-fascism and the looming dystopia?
We live in a symptom-focused society.
We need #NuancedActivism that can pull people gently by the shirt timely enough to bring them back into the fold of #CivilSociety where #truth and #CriticalThinking can be nurtured again.
What we have is #RepellentActivism that puts a hot iron to anyone acting suspicious, and ensures they're so hurt never to return.
Repellent #activism is loved by #extremists both on the left and right as it feeds into voracious #PuritySpirals and suck more people into deep #radicalisation.
Your dream job is more than just work.