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The DIY-spirited software scenes were so thoroughly commercialized that appealing to their aesthetics is now in the past. FFS, the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" is
by finnthehuman 2y ago
The DIY-spirited software scenes were so thoroughly commercialized that appealing to their aesthetics is now in the past.
FFS, the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" is based on a venture capitalist co-opting a rebellious term to convince a bunch of impressionable youths that they can have this alluring label and that the cool kids software club is actually working for his vc firm.
All the subculture has been thoroughly power-washed out of any commercial useful corner of their online communities. You can encounter more pressure to be a milquetoast office-job persona in the open source space than your actual office job.
We're in so deep you can't even see how deep we're in.
- bakuninsbart 2y ago> FFS, the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" is based on a venture capitalist co-opting a rebellious term to convince a bunch of impressionable youths that they can have this alluring label and that the cool kids software club is actually working for his vc firm. Ok, I didn't see the forest for the trees there, which is quite funny. But I still get together with friends to build stuff for the sake of it, without any intention of commercializing the things we build, and there is still a very large corpus of FOSS software being maintained by people simply because they think it is cool, or because they are idealists who want free software to be free.
- finnthehuman 2y agoI don't see why it would be mutually exclusive. It can be the case that a subculture was commoditized AND people still enjoy doing the stuff the subculture formed around.
- RGamma 2y agoMaKe YoUr HoBbY yOuR cArEeR.