Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 62

This is also a problem because we *do* need principled positions right now. I look at the OSI license discuss / review mailing lists right now and see us at the edge of people really screwing up everything, and having clearly articulated principles is how we can resist breaking those things.

But thus far all those principles rest on the reputation of one person, and that person isn't doing a good job of maintaining their reputation (and thus ours).

What to do next?

I'm not as interested in discussing the details of what RMS said this time as I am in recognizing this as a regularly occuring pattern of behavior, and how hard it makes life for the FOSS community to push for the ideals we collectively believe in.

If a single person or organization in the environmental movement does something that seems deeply problematic, it doesn't feel like it threatens the end of environmentalism.

So how did we end up in this state? How can we change that?

@cwebber @conservancy I'm in support! Yet, I would be interested in a list of signatories or clarification on if this is a unanimous response by the SFC board?

I might seem all over the place, but I've actually been very singular in my focus towards distributed, rich virtual worlds for over a decade. It's just a lot of work to get there:

- MediaGoblin lead to ActivityPub
- ActivityPub is a distributed social system
- Liberated Pixel Cup gave us base graphical assets
- XUDD, 8sync, Goblins are all actor experiments so I can understand the technical foundation
- Datashards lets us securely distribute assets
- Ocaps bring us security

Ever had your words taken out of context and being made to seemingly say something else? Speak up.

We will be present with a booth at the Software Freedom Day at the NLLGG meeting in Utrecht. If you are interested in #FreeSoftware and the @fsfe@twitter.com, pass by and get to know the people from our community and our work.

https://fsfe.org/events/events.de.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEgLvNRIhQ

Here's the other thing: exposing like and follower counts on the fediverse is, quite frankly, mostly bullshit. It's so easy to fake, either by giving a number that isn't true or by generating fake responses trivially.