Notices by Briar Rose (polymerwitch@toot.cat)

Github 2008-2017: repeatedly makes international news for having an awful culture. Marginalized people are forced out, founders harass and stalk employees they are mad at, pushes meritocracy as a viable power structure, pretty much the poster child of Silicon Valley decadence.

Response: well, no one's perfect

Github 2018: Microsoft acquires Github

Response: now, this place is ruined

@Elizafox I feel like once a project gets to a certain size you always at best end up with a benevolent dictator. We are either going to have someone in that spot that forces their opinions on others are someone who is so "diplomatic" that everything becomes watered down garbage.

We need some sort of democratic structural body.

On mastodon, as in meat space, I see people frustrated by being in a position where they seem dis-empowered, and I think: "we need to get organized".

Imagine if mastodon users belonging to marginalized communities started organizing on Loomio. Everyone discusses concerns and teams of tech writers convey those in issues. Then, teams of programmers write pull requests to address them. Those with monetary means support the effort as are able.

Me: OMG, I'm so overwhelmed! Why do I always commit to so many things

Also me: I should write an IRC like interface for the ActivityPub protocol

mastodon/gnusocial network is about to hit 100K users