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My reply?
“Thanks but no thanks.”
Why?
Because I don’t need to see the app. I know the people behind it and what they stand for. The app can only ever be a manifestation of (or an initial misdirection from) that.
Expecting the wolf that took a bite out of you last time to this time act in your interests is how you end up as its dinner.
#BlueSky #JackDorsey #billionaires #SiliconValley #decentralisation #lipService #crypto #bullshit
Anyone seeking a decentralised world would never allow themselves to do the things it takes to become (or remain) a billionaire. Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are the epitome of centralisation.
Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself.
#JackDorsey #BlueSky #billionaires #capitalism #twitter #fediverse #centralisation #decentralisation #corporateCapture #embraceExtendExtinguish #warning
Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!
source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/
Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisation
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FO…Software Freedom Conservancy
Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!
source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.
#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisationGive Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FO…Software Freedom Conservancy
Hm, somehow the @matrixdotorg@twitter.com network is still up and running. Why could that be... #decentralisation #interoperability https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1445071057052971010
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ilumium/status/1445073856188846088
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/04/16/this-week-in-matrix-2021-04-16 #decentralisation #twim #matrix
on designing @cryptpad@twitter.com and @davidrevoy@twitter.com share his open source art and design work! #decentralisation #live #otwsu