Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My read is that FUTO as a software movement is totally fine, it does what it claims on the tin. The people behind FUTO are a different story, and the main person bankrolling it seems to have friends with odd views (I think they’re blown out of proportion, but they’re still concerning).

  You’ll never find a perfect movement. Here’s what FUTO seems to prioritize:

  • local first alternatives to big tech
  • source availability, but in a way big tech can’t use but home users can
  • profitability for devs without coercion or feature gates

  That sounds pretty good to me! I’d prefer it to be FOSS, but allowing me to distribute modifications for non-commercial use is probably good enough for most things.

  I probably disagree with their founder politically, and I’d run FUTO differently, but I think their software is good and I could maintain it myself if needed, and at the end of the day, that’s what matters to me.

  FUTO doesn’t seem interested in getting involved in politics, they’re merely musing philosophically, and their products aren’t profitable, so it doesn’t really matter to me what their political positions are.

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  • upsidebeet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Software can’t be fascist, it’s just software. The makers or users can be fascist though. If that statement was true, Lemmy would be tankie.

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      • upsidebeet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • Scirocco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hahah you mean like Lemmy itself?

      • replace ‘fascist’ with ‘tankie’

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• droolio@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes I read it when it first came out, and again after a recent update. It’s very opinionated and I remain unconvinced the criticisms amounts to very much. At the least, certainly not to the point where words like nazi and fascist should be thrown around!

  For example, I dislike Yarin’s and Lunduke’s politics but I did at least watched Yarin’s interview. (Did you? It was boring, and entirely tech-oriented, nothing controversial at all.) But… trial by association I guess. And anyway, it’s not the article itself I have a problem with - it’s the borrowing of second-hand opinions as if they should be your own. Sometimes, it’s prudent to reserve judgement (until ‘verifying every single thing’), or criticise specific ideas, without leaping to ad hominem per consortium.

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  • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell the worst thing they did was call their source available license open source, which isn’t even that bad.

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