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  • (and so if you want to discuss prolewiki you should join our discord to talk with the editorship directly). We’ve evolved our own demcent, our own community, policies etc over time.

    1. Is there a Matrix space also for ProleWiki?
    2. Should the Discord be prerered over posting on this community to
    suggest changes or ask questions?

    (Like my post on the topic of FOSS)

    5 - we consider all anon edits individually, regardless of the IP attached.

    Would it be advisable to request an account to

    hide one's IP?

    (As I think the warning suggests when attempting an anon edit)






  • I would agree. But then, do we not have any alternatives to FOSS as socialists?

    Or would the only alternative be to change our material conditions by means or a revolution, which would allow for the ownership of the means of production and in turn liberate the proletariat from the burden of having their workforce exploited by capital?

    Idk if I’m being liberal when asking ir there’s an in-between, but…I’d love to know if there’s any “Actually Existent Socialism (AES?)” transition state which allows for better software development during the transition. As a Software Development level.

    (Bc ir you again go to the workplace level, then you get my original counterpoint; revolution, etc.)




  • Caital considers it free labor they can re-appropriate.

    I fail to see how this is the case with strong copy-left licenses, where there is no way for you to make proprietary software from it. (I think that’s the whole point. Right?)

    Maybe by relicensing (can you do that?) Or by being the ones in control of the hardware, even if the software is free? So

    You could self-host…but it’s gonna’ cost you, and you can’t afford that.

    Same freedom as with:

    You could just not work. But then you’d starve.

    Hence freedom is only negative (normative), not positive?







  • I think for an ML view we would prefer centralization instead of many splits and forks, merge everything into one big “hive” software that does everything.

    I’d figured that would be the way to go, but I see most of the ML stuff like Lemmy being more aimed at federation and decentralization. Which could be like a “guerilla software” tactic of sorts. And using FOSS as means of protecting it from capitlist exploitation with the whole copyleft scheme.


  • Sorry for the confusion on my part regarding who, made what and why.

    But then, what is to be done to the FOSS page on the wiki? And to reiterate, then the use of AGPL is usually endorsed within an ML framework?

    I’d suggest that be written on the article rather than the current contents added by SovietPasiune, because I’ve had this question regarding what the best way to license my contributions to software without it feeling like I’m looking for libertarian-style freedom.

    And perhaps something could also be added which included information about codeberg, maybe? https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/

    Or what are your personal opinions on the matter of software development? Maybe @desalines@lemmy.ml has some essays about it? Idk. But I’d love it if there was some resources which applied ML analysis to software and I haven’t found any yet. (Which is why I was originally excited for the ProleWiki article)

    Either way, thank you for your response and the wiki. The essay on Gender Abolitionism I found very interesting.

    Edit:

    Or maybe some common DeGoogle alternatives or information regarding stuff like Open Street Map (OSM) or Matrix or more tech-related articles? (Or is that not the purpose of ProleWiki and I didn’t read the memo?)