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1. Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 21:23:17 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   Imagine calling yourself far or radical left but instead of owning the means of production by using #opensource you insist on using Microsoft Office and Gmail while you still stay on Twitter and organise your next action on Facebook ;)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 21:23:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jwildeboer I don’t have to imagine it.

     https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 21:28:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • vruz

     @jwildeboer @vruz It happens when a group starts to derive its identity from being counter the mainstream (instead of from improving the mainstream to the point where it would hopefully one day make them obsolete).

     When that happens, the mainstream actually getting better becomes an existential threat for them as it means the loss of their identity.

     We must resist the formation of such identities in our organisations. We must exist to not exist because we affected the change we set out to.

   • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 21:28:56 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • vruz

     @vruz Some people are so occupied with The Problem that every solution is seen as a threat. That’s BTW a general rule, not limited to the left.

   • vruz (vruz@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 21:28:58 JST vruz

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     @jwildeboer And then you denounce the insufficient, segregationist quality of Free and Open Source Software because it's not specifically designed to serve the specific oppressed and underprivileged community you purport to represent whilst wearing the prefix Dr. on your name, at the same time erasing the experience of the underprivileged and oppressed community that originally created it.

     I've seen it happen.