@onepict@chaos.social @librecast@chaos.social I appreciate it having such a clear definition :) I do generally follow the same goals, the things I work on need to be *for* something.

I do think that building a personal project in terms of "creating technology for the hell of it" is not *necessarily* wrong either, it just makes it a hobby project. What specifically irks me is that people never communicate this, and make it appear as if it's something more, by eg. actively marketing their project. You don't market your home science experiment to a nuclear lab either, and yet this is somehow considered normal in software.

But yeah, personally I'm very much aligned on viewing software development as a human rights thing too.