I thought about this already for a while and with Lemmy and Mastodon the opensource community has a place to really try itself out and coordinate. Then even things like open-source planning-systems (like at Amazon) and AIs are possible.

At least in Germany there is currently no really political movement that could be described as left-libertarian at least seriously. Maybe the Fediverse could be the root for something like that.

Or will the Fediverse will become more like the new landscape of the internet, which encompasses everything and in which every party will need to move and have a certain stance to somehow?

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    Free Software started as a political movement about the rights of computer users to learn, share, and improve the systems we use. Open Source was the business-friendly depoliticized version.

  • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    For me Lemmy, mastodon etc are tools, like email or http. People which use these tools are very different and have very different political views. So, for me the answer to your question is “no”.

    • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
      12·
      1 year ago

      On the main fediverse you can really see it – the thing everyone has in common is a back-end protocol. That’s about it. You get trans instances and terf instances and no, they won’t be joining hands to sing kumbaya.

      The World Wide Web is another example of this that’s much older. How many people reading this agree with Stormfront? Probably not that many. And yet both you and them are sharing the use of a variety of TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTML protocols and platforms.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    The term “open source” was created to distance itself from the moral and political aspects of the already established term “free software” (free as in freedom). There are coordinated efforts to promote user’s software freedoms and the developers of copyleft, free software.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Haha as a guy who definitely believed open source was the political force gathering steam to replace George W Bush back in the day…no.

  • Arigion@feddit.deEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    with Lemmy and Mastodon the opensource community has a place to really try itself out

    Sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      A problem with a lot of the cool stuff is that nobody weaponizes it but all the shitty stuff gets weaponized.

        • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think that’s right. Lots of mundane things get politicized by the right in a way that makes it very understandable to people who might not usually care why they should care. It’s why grandma knows about trans teachers but not right to repair. One side of culture doesn’t shy away from educating people or conflict while the other side hopes a cool thing takes off naturally in its own time ignoring how important it is to market ideas.

  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Some people, communities or instances will. Others will not. That’s kind of the nature of the fediverse, it’s not homogenous but diverse.

  • regalia@literature.cafeEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    It is fundamentally political. Political means advocating for policy, and decentralization is our policy we advocate for. The question is will it actually amount to anything.

  • Parculis Marcilus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    I mean private movement is a thing. Of course it could be turned into a political movement if we’re vocal about it. As long as we keep the public inform about the movement’s vision, I’m pretty optimistic about we’ll gain public support

    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      You are currently engaged in politics.

      Your decision to be scared of politics is a political decision.

      As a human being living in any social structure, you will be subject to politics.

      • ttmrichter@lemmy.world
        210·
        1 year ago

        If you redefine politics to the point of it being an utterly useless word, yes, you’re absolutely correct.

        Of course then you’re also absolutely useless to talk to.