@gnusocialjp i got burnt out with qvitter/gnu social development in 2017 and i have not followed what has happened with the fediverse at all since then. i got curious if anyone still used qvitter and found your instance. you got the server running really smoothly, and i am impressed that it works so good.
but i’m sorry to disappoint, I don’t think I can be much help now. i have done almost zero software development since then. your fork on github could be considered the official qvitter repo now. i doubt i still have the skills and strength to contribute anything meaningful. maybe something small in the future.
i still believe that a non-profit decentralised social media is a important piece of the puzzle for an anti-capitalist movement to use for organising. and sure, developers will need money to be able to focus on developing and not waste their lives on wage labour.
what disappointed me was that the european left didn’t care about owning the means of communication. european activists and social movements thought twitter and facebook were fine, and didn’t have any interest in gnu social.
it just became to depressing for me. it seemed to me that the european anarchist left measured their success in the number of likes they got on capitalist platforms.
what i thought back then, and what i still believe, is that gnusocial needs to connect with existing anti-capitalist movements “on the ground”. the network needs to do some real work, organising something material. people sharing skills to become more self sufficiant, distributing real stuff in the network, from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. that is the spirit of free software, and free software people need to take those ethics out of the computers and apply it to the whole of society.
gnusocial needs to know what it wants, what movement it wants to be a part of. otherwise it will be co-opted.
＞what disappointed me was that the european left didn’t care about owning the means of communication. european activists and social movements thought twitter and facebook were fine, and didn’t have any interest in gnu social.
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＞what disappointed me was that the european left didn’t care about owning the means of communication. european activists and social movements thought twitter and facebook were fine, and didn’t have any interest in gnu social.
と書かれていますね。これが2017年となると、ちょうどMastodonが開発されてリリースされた頃と重なるのですが、Mannerheim氏は知らなかったのでしょうか。それとも関心がなかった…？
Mastodonブームは日本で起きたので、著者はニアミスで気づかなかった可能性はあります。
ただ、2017年当時からGNU socialは先細っていたようなので、燃え尽きて嫌になったのだと思います。私も似たような経験があり、気持ちがわかります。自分が一生懸命に取り組んで限界がきて辞めたら、辞めていて知らない間に大きな出来事が起こったりとか。これはしかたありません。