floss.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
For people who care about, support, and build Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS).

Administered by:

Server stats:

685
active users

👏🏼 Stop 👏🏼 Encouraging 👏🏼 Tech 👏🏼 Monocultures 👏🏼

"....throughout the history of we have a pattern of putting all of our eggs in one or two baskets. But eventually a company needs to make money - so they start boiling the eggs in the basket ... If open source is a garden then we keep planting ourselves in sand and hoping the tide never comes in.

blog.thea.codes/we-need-to-tal

blog.thea.codesWe need to talk about GitHub - Thea FlowersHow hosting monoculture is harming us and what we can do about it.
Michael Downey 🧢

"More generally, I believe that development should return to its roots as a movement guided by moral principles. Doing so would help the open source community set better boundaries, which would in turn improve software quality, funding, and working conditions. Without a moral center to give developers a spine, they’ll continue to race to the bottom to please corporate interests."

haskellforall.com/2021/12/fund

www.haskellforall.comFunding isn't the problem with open source funding I’m writing this partially in response to the recent log4j vulnerability , where I see several people sugges...