I originally got introduced to sociallist idiology through Richard Stallman’s speaches. I know he had some, uhh… “interesting” things to say about Epstein’s victims (which I believe he has since redacted), but his speaches are absolutely still worth listening to just for the content alone.
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jonne@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoAnd the open source movement is such a blind spot to the ‘left’ as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.
Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you’re just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
jonne@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Yeah, very disappointed by RMS’ creepiness (the Epstein stuff isn’t the only thing), but he was 100% right about software freedom.
spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Redacted or recanted? One of these is definitely preferable to the other in this context.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Recanted is the word I was thinking of.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Those same people are also still using Twitter or Instagram or TikTok.
shrugs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People will never understand intricacies like that. On the other hand, the big tech corps do. We are doomed
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah. And to think, it’s a fairly small amount of nuance - it’s very basic and intuitive and information about it is literally everywhere. We are hopeless when it comes to far more complex and nuanced social issues. People seem to think socialism is like “be nice to each other” or some stupid aestheticism about “empathy”.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Right? The collective dismissal of Mastodon from leftist influencers when the Muskening happened was eye opening.
Like, there’s a collaborative, volunteer-based platform right over there. You want mutual aid? Open-source is as mutual-aid as it gets.
But it’s nerd shit.
SOULFLY98@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Because they are controlled opposition.
The only time something not controlled got popular was TikTok and you saw how quickly both parties went to ban it in 2024 after normal people started talking about Gaza genocide in every day conversation. The American Congress worked together to ban it even though they couldn’t agree on anything else.
It went from an Asian platform where Asian people in the West connected with each other outside the mainstream blue pill/red pill false choice and shared culture as well as history that isn’t taught, to “here’s the truth about Jesus” and “the world is flat debate me” after that vote. Now it’s full on MAGA.
Mastodon is harder to control because servers can pop up organically, but I guess Threads was a hedge against that threat.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure what you mean by controlled, but how I got to know it was as the malware that’s recommended to everyone on the front page of the google play store, and then even factory preinstalled on a lot of them.
SOULFLY98@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
It wasn’t doing anything that Facebook wasn’t already doing, but it got banned. The CEO was brought in front of Congress and racially profiled, gave strong answers, and then got banned anyway.
Wonder why?
TikTok hate was a bot farm. The algorithm was always a reflection of the user.
shrugs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also, on xitter are all these assholes I don’t care about. I can’t leave that platform. Pathetic!
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah it’s unhinged, FOSS is as communism in practice as it gets right now and the left just ignores it, dismissing it as “tech bad” because they can only think in AnPrim brainrot terms most of the time and judge only by aesthetics and make sweeping generalisations about social media that lack any and all imagination.