@JessTheUnstill It's a sad truth that people are more likely to vote against their interests if it hurts people they hate or resent than they are to vote for common interests.

I think also that the significant role special interest driven psyops played in this election result has been mostly overlooked and even played down in discussion and news coverage.

@carmenbianca At this point, Stallman should probably step down for the good of the community. The controversy is harming the FSF's reputation, and they do have key roles in the community, such as litigating GPL violations.

The GNU Public License is ingenious in how it protects software from Capitalistic encroachment, and I'm sure proprietary vendors would be only too happy if people were put off from using GPL offerings.

@thegibson As a kid, I was taught by a wise teacher that once any group of people becomes unsafe under a government, absolutely no one will be safe any more.

I voted, but I'm also looking into what else I can do with my existing abilities.

@justine @stefano @grunfink I've been tinkering with snac on a private instance, along with other ActivityPub servers like BookWyrm, and snac is much less of a production to set up.

I admit to being old school, but I'd expect the setup of a mail server to be harder than a Fedi service. When I first looked at the process to set up a Mastodon server, and I've been in IT a while and set up my share of services, my reaction was, "Are you sh***ing me?"