Most people who make FOSS full time that people interact with (Linux, Python, Git, Node.js etc) work at large tech companies where their work is being subsidized.

Solo devs don’t have that luxury, their income is directly tied to their product. They don’t have the same privileges.

It baffles me how much people get shit twisted again and again.

Stalin murdered over 60 million people within the USSR, many of them ethnic minorities. God look up the Holodomor

Holodomor

Both systems are utopian on paper and anti humanist in practice. There’s more than two answers lol.

Was Imperial Russia and China capitalist societies? Good lord you tankies need to learn about more than two economic systems and a history lesson about what actually led to both revolutions.

The Lemmy protocol is open source and you’re free to use an open source solution. You’re free to use sync for Lemmy in much the same way you can run a Spotify client in Linux. One does not destroy the other.

Tldr if you don’t like it, don’t use it.

Upvoted via Sync lol. FOSS is great, FOSS is irreplaceable, but for independent programmers FOSS doesn’t pay the rent.