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That was literally my point. Some people bought electric cars because the could, not because they wanted to effect any social change.
Is activity pub only used on Linux desktop apps? Can't a Mac or windows user participate in mastodon? Fediverse use and Linux are separate issues.
This false equivalence between Linux itself and the path of our collective salvation from social media, corporate manipulation, etc, etc is a big problem for Linux, because Linux is just a tool.
btrfs is widely praised... and also a product of Facebook. Google has poured Fons of money into FOSS development. Should we shun these tools?
Especially now, with a sizable influx of users to Linux, articles like the one Op posted create a completely false us v them narrative that just isn't there.
You want to fight the evil social media? Drop them.
Okay. Then don't really see the relevance here. OPs point was clearly about trying to effect social change.
I wasn’t trying to suggest that they couldn’t.
Literally speaking they are different projects, but they are also similar in that they are both open source projects, often both FOSS, so the underlying philosophy behind their development is the same
Shunning doomscrolling is not the same thing as categorically shunning everything that Google or Meta has ever output. I think its great they contribute to open source projects, I hope they do continue to do so
Personally speaking I didn't find OPs post to be especially divisive, it I didn't make me feel compelled to go harm some Windows users or anything like that, but your mileage may vary
I'm happy to let the conversation take its course, but I take exception to this. You damn well know that's not what I meant.
I was being hyperbolic but the point is the article didn't point any real negativity towards the users of big tech, just the corporations or CEOs or whoever behind big tech