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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
Deep question: lately I have felt that I don't belong anymore to anyplace in the sense of a movement. For me it has been always hip-hop and open source, my two crews where I actually see a fit in. However, years are passing and hip-hop has changed losing its roots (probably, because I'm getting older) and open-source stills important but it is not the same as it was in the beginning. This feeling could be because when I was younger I loved hip-hop because its deep roots with the streets and fight with the status quo. It was political, it said truths. Nowadays we don't pass from Drake and Kendrick fighting like two little kids. Don't get me wrong, it has been legendary, but I guess you get my point. The same goes with OSS. In the beginning it was fighting against the status quo of Microsoft and Apple. Nowadays, people embrace non-GPL licenses and we will never see the light of the Mach micro-kernel :D What do you think? Do you feel the same?
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Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth
So I agree with you on hip hop, 100%. Its definitely went from art, to commercial art, to just a commercial product. I think OSS still has its soul but it no longer feels like we are fighting against the man. But it has a lot of great subpockets, like OSS ai tools and crypto.
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@christin
completely feeling the same way and.. interpreting it as a sign to be bolder in starting my own movement (or at least mediate the movement thru the current entity that is me, if that makes sense / is a bit less self-centeredly phrased)
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BLACKDAVE ₘₖ₂
@blackdave
These feelings come from trying to stay current as things continue to change. Your values are already set, and as time passes, so do those values. I think this is normal. Not ideal but normal. I'm big on "I don't like this but I try to understand it" to just keep up and pick & choose what I like.
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@seanbonner.eth
Feel this very much. This is an extension of "the more we're connected the lonelier we get" thing and this constant hunt to find our people. Do I fit in here? Maybe, maybe not... kind of thing. We've talked on this often as well, punk, hiphop, skating, art, etc.. and then of course even os, ngo, foundation work... all places where i fit for a time, and then they grew and i grew and the fit wasn't the same, no less important to me of course, but that deep daily drive and connection wasn't the same. I try to frame it as a good thing, growth and becoming more than in a sense, but that still has the bit of looking back at what was at some other time and knowing it won't ever be that again. I don't know where it leads yet, and definitely feeling lost looking around.
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@bias
the cold, artificial corpo commercialization comes to everything: it especially takes pleasure in commandeering what might've been originally rebellious cultures to package it back up into a trendy little commercial product to sell to the status-signaling performance-minded. see the pop-punk trend of the 90s-early 00s, the corpo fuckers took the 'stereotypical' punk sound and "polished" it for a wider audience. Now we have kidults from said era believing Green Day, Blink 182, Sum41, etc to be true punk, when they're hollow corporate astroturfed bullshit. You're seeing the same shit happen to hiphop, mumble rap, trap whatever you want to call any of it anymore. It's all a product, its all commercialization: no art to be found. Not punk, not hip-hop, not rebellious whatsoever, but simply another tame flavor of the status quo.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Permissive OSS > Copyleft, I will die on this hill! :P Declarative procedural OS (like NixOS) is more important than a micro-kernel. Come join the cause!
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