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Community over tools. Hopefully if the tools fail the communities will move to new tools. Ultimately, a huge hacker culture built on proprietary tools might le
by Buttons840 3y ago
Community over tools. Hopefully if the tools fail the communities will move to new tools.
Ultimately, a huge hacker culture built on proprietary tools might lead to more freedoms, both political and technical, than a tiny hacker community built on other tools. The size and political influence of a larger community matters.
- rapnie 3y agoMaybe. But I wonder how much of a healthy community collapses when you are forced to make a switch from, say, Discord to some alternative tool. Building and maintaining healthy communities requires tremendous amount of effort, especially when they are large. So you should weigh the benefits of a convenient tool to the amount of effort that may go to waste if that tool no longer fits the bill.
- Buttons840 3y agoMaybe, but that would be part of "community over tools". If one tool results in a smaller but better community, then sure, it's worth it. I suppose the real problem of using proprietary tools for a larger community is the marginalized people. Like, if Discord didn't allow people from a certain country. It's a tradeoff between having as large a community as possible and making sure you include everyone, even those with uncommon circumstances. That's a tradeoff that gets made in many situation I think.