so no amount of trust in the current people running it is relevant. either they aren't worth your trust, or they are but will soon be outnumbered, or they will maintain a small team and have insufficient staff to deal with problems (making the question of trust useless)
the only merits you can judge it on are structural
the “company” side of things :— hiring practices, project management, openness and transparency regarding decisionmaking and governance, communication with users, participatory design methodologies, etc, etc —: these are the areas where every single social media platform has failed, not features
where are these things in the a§c manifesto? these very important not-software things?
can they sign on to this manifesto? why haven't they already?
@aescling these are just basic leftist-anarchist talking points that i threw together in 30 minutes for a post on mastodon
@aescling any software developer who (a) considers themselves politically along that axis and (b) is trying to build a software with a “global” or “universal” audience or userbase should agree with all of these things
@Lady i wasn’t saying it was a high bar to pass. at all. lol
@Lady by “impressed” i just mean i expect extremely little out of ostensibly left-anarchist (or otherwise progressive) software development
@aescling right, but i also don't want actual leftists who care about software to think true social justice is out of reach. it is possible, we have tools, we have organizing principles which are tried and effective, stop listening to the poseurs and go make a thing. you can adopt a mission statement like this today. with a little work you can probably develop a better one.
@Lady i would be seriously impressed if any software came out that signed on to this manifesto