Are you aware that software maintainers don’t have to merge the contributions these people are pushing?

Yes, I literally said that in the first line of the comment you’re replying to.

Are you saying that copyleft software is enshitififying because big companies are pushing too many (optional) contributions?

Yes. I’m not saying that always happens, but I do believe many projects enshitified a good amount because a lot of their contributors have become big companies. Or sometimes companies make an entirely new project that is enshitified from the very beginning but still gets included in other FOSS projects. Both merging a contribution or including a project are optional, but since FOSS projects get involved in this whole producer-customer relations model, where everything is done centrally by the developer and served ready-to-use to passive consumers, merging those contributions kinda becomes an actual need of users. So yeah, if you dig deeper, it’s ultimately the very involvement in this commercial centralised production model and not just companies, that causes enshitification, but I still think that letting companies just fuck off and do their own centralised thing separately from decentralised DIY-like development which, to my mind, is actual freedom, might help.

It’s just rejecting your responsibility in the way you behave. “It’s not me, it’s the nature”

Bro calm down, I’m not trying to insult you. I’m sorry what I said made you so upset.

I’m not blaming the GPL of anything, I’m not saying license defines software design, I’m not proposing a solution and the whole point of my post was about the contradictory nature of the problem. You just seem to have missed my whole reasoning. Now, I don’t know why looking at the negative sides of the trade-off the GPL is making bugs you so much, but if it’s really not your thing, you should stop wasting your time on this self-contradictory mess and just be happy with GPL. Especially because I’m too small for my “corporate apologia” to be effective.

Oh boy, I got so confused when I was a beginner and some American kid told me “would of” is an alternative to “would have”

Oh wow, it’s so cool you speak Esperanto! Can you share your experience with it? Where do you use it? What good Esperanto communities are there? Do you find it actually useful? In what ways did it enrich your life?

I think the means of productions just hadn’t reached the level of development required for the transition to new relations of production. Namely, there wasn’t automation that would eliminate routine alienated work and also make production decentralised. On the other hand, centralised alienated production started to get very fragmented (yes, centralised but fragmented), leading to the centralised form of property Soviet socialism was based on becoming no longer suitable for its fragmented content. So even though people protested, their economic needs unknowingly drove them to capitalism. It was a collective unconscious necessity.

It is a good example of an internal dialectical contradiction where something is two polar things at the same time.

Okay maintainers don’t have to, but they usually end up doing so as those contributions are still valuable. The key point is that even though free software is called “free”, a huge chunk of it is going through the same process of “enshitification” as proprietary software, because of being developped by companies and being a part of this corporate, non-free world. So separating that from FOSS by letting companies keep their work by themselves seems to help a little bit.

There’s no direct relation, yes, but centralisation and bloating are both things commercial software development tends to because of the nature of developper-consumer relations. And GPL forces companies to contribute their code which is often based on those principles back to the original project. So I think there is indirect relation.

To those who get upset with this post: bruh just talk to actual Ukrainians. You’ll discover many interesting things.

The funny part of propaganda is that it’s very often true - maybe exagerated but still true. People on the other side just ignore their own issues, so the truth has a shocking effect. But in actuality, if you dig deeper, you almost always end up realising both sides in every conflict do some horrible things and at the same time have good reasons for that. Because war is not about who’s right and who’s wrong, it’s about who’s gonna survive and who’s gonna become a slave or die.

And I’m even not pro-Russian.

Human nature on its deathbed when it realizes it forgot to account for Karl Marx

Well, for me personally the way the software is developped and designed is not something abstract. Centralisation and bloating, for example, makes understanding and developping software a significant amount more difficult which puts you in a more passive role and so making you much less free

I get your point, but what I’m talking about is actually moving away from corps in a way even more than GPL by keeping their contributions away from FOSS projects (as corps usually have no interest in open sourcing them)

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I have a male Ukrainian friend. His girlfriend lived in a student dormitory in another part of the city when the “busification” started. One day a neighbour of hers tried to rape her, and when she started to resist, he punched her in the abdomen area so hard she got a serious vaginal bleeding. My friend obviously wanted to rush to the dormitory to beat the fuck out of the guy and help his girlfriend but he simply couldn’t because he would immediately get enrolled and sent to the warzone. And this is almost a good story compared to others I’ve heard…

Most of these just seem to be features of decentralisation. And if decentralisation isn’t your thing, neither is Lemmy honestly. Just stick to Reddit.

I really think Fediverse shouldn’t be thought of as an alternative to proprietary social media that any average user can just switch to. There’s a completely different mindset behind it, where you’re not a passive consumer but a creator and a developper, responsible for the growth of the project the same way its original creators are. Same thing as with Windows and Linux.

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Bad relationship with their parents in their childhood taught them to be afraid of being in a close relationship. This is both extremely messed up and tragic.

Gotta love Finnish philosophy!

Oh yeah, I can relate, a lot of confusion when you’re just starting. I sweared so much during my first month of using NixOS… But I’m glad to hear you like it!

I literally know a woman whose parents hated each other, but chose to stay “for her”. Guess what, she’s still single in her 50s, because her notion of love and closeness is just so completely messed up…

Also her father died of alcoholism.