I noticed them talking about one of their softwares being licensed under FSL, not having heard of it, I looked it up and…

https://fsl.software/

They kinda lost me at

What about AGPLv3 though? AGPLv3 is not permissive enough.

However, in the original article, this section definitely had me thinking. I thoroughly agree with the author’s stance on this, and I wonder if their alternatives will actually solve the problem.

As the former VP of Community at Discourse (GPLv2) I spent half a decade participating in the making of certifiably Free, Open Source Software that got put to use by literal nazis to amplify their organized hate, and all we had to say for ourselves was “well, the license says free for everyone”.

It makes me think of “”“Truth”" Social" using Mastodon code, and illegally at that. I guess… at a certain point if a bad actor is gonna be bad… Will a license stop them? I’m unconvinced that AGPL isn’t enough, but I could still be won over.

So long as my freedoms as a regular individual are maintained with the software that I use and love (my primary concern is some megacorp enshittifier being able to just take the stuff I use on the daily) then I’m open to new licensing schemes. I could be won over.

Also, don’t post an image (and then tag it as NSFW‽) for a text post!

If I’m looking for a text post, maybe I want to read discussion, and I see an image, I’ll skip it.

If I want to see images, and then see something that makes no sense and has no context, I’ll be irritated and confused when I realize it’s a nonsequitur attachment to a text post.