Notices by smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) (smallcircles@social.coop), page 4

A nice retrospective you wrote @nolan and thank you for all the hard work on #Pinafore, a great app.

I am involved in organizing #SocialCoding movement as a crowdsourced "Knowledge Garden", and wrote a forum topic on the dynamic I gleaned from your retrospective, which is a very common Challenge in #FOSS projects.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/foss-dynamics-from-joy-of-coding-to-duty-and-burdens/234

@nickcolley @weex

There is talk about Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (#EEE) by corporations entering the #Fediverse and how to protect against that.

#FOSS licenses are mentioned, like #AGPL. But how much protection does that offer, really? When a corporation might throw a hundred person product development team and a couple million bucks to just recreating someone's one-person project's innovations?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/best-license-for-open-source-fedi-apps/2876/5

I recommend watching @darius #ActivityPub conference talk:

https://conf.tube/w/oPQjje8j6qBFj7NSQ9xCKj

@neil for sure!

I am all for using #AGPL but thinking it is just one small bit of protection. Not nearlyas much as people seem to think it provides.

It offers no guarantees whatsoever with corporate competitors able to throw so much weight in the game should our ecosystem have piqued their interest.

There's app types and features that are less attractive for monetization. If you are a #FOSS dev that wants to dabble in #ActivityPub and not see your work outcompeted, you may wanna focus there.

@neil

Besides things mentioned by Darius in the video hinting to #Fediverse creating its own path as a grassroots movement, the efforts of @aral and @laura wrt #SmallTech are interesting in this regard.

Not only does applying the https://small-tech.org principles lead to apps less attractive for monetization by #BigTech, also the technology base makes it easier for small businesses to make an entry and earn sustainable (and reasonable + fair) income.