the constant platform hopping is an indictment of the FOSS community
I will probably do a 'proper' full-size blogpost about this at some point, but for now this will have to do.
It saddens me immensely to see the tendency across the whole FOSS world to respond to issues with chat/code/etc. by proposing to just... move to a different one, that may or may not be open (and often isn't).
Is FOSS not supposed to be about collectively building open infrastructure, including our own meta-infrastructure? About removing that dependency on proprietary, user-hostile systems, such that we have the collective freedom to use our computers as we see fit, and collectively benefit from working together on that goal?
Then how is it justifiable to respond to platform and tech issues with "let's just use something else, we don't have time/money to fix this", when we *could* also be organizing across projects to all pitch in some work to improve the open thing? Where's the solidarity? Where's the collaboration? Where are all those ideals that people always talk about?
followup, re: the constant platform hopping is an indictment of the FOSS community
To be clear: that doesn't mean that there can't be legitimate reasons to give up on a system and create something else. Governance issues, for example, are a real problem.
But such a decision should have specific *reasons*, and doesn't remove the need for collaboration - go organize a new thing with a couple of people from other projects who think about the problem space similarly!
