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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 17:57:17 JST Aral Balkan

   Fake allies are the worst.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 18:17:27 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bob Mottram :debian:

     @bob This has been my experience too.

     When we first started Ind.ie (now Small Technology Foundation) and took a principled stance against people farming/surveillance capitalism, we received the greatest vitriol not from Silicon Valley folks (although, goodness knows, there was the occasional asshat) but from the open source community. And exactly for the reason you just stated.

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     Bob Mottram :debian: (bob@epicyon.libreserver.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 18:17:29 JST Bob Mottram :debian:

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     @aral Getting blocked by fosstodon doesn't make sense to me, although it is the case that a lot of foss people have one foot in the world of BigTech and so may feel obligated to defend unethical business practices. Get them by the salary, and hearts and minds soon follow.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 19:17:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bob Mottram :debian:
     • sudonymouse

     @sudonymouse Apparently it’s unsilenced now.

     @bob

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     sudonymouse (sudonymouse@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 19:17:56 JST sudonymouse

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     • Bob Mottram :debian:

     @bob @aral I actually have an account on fosstodon, let's see how far I can fare!