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this draft can probably be multiple blog posts

need to find where i stuck my old writing about these things

libertarian bullshit in open source communities
- hyperindividualism
- "entitlement" somehow contorted to mean "someone else actually cares about a change in my software or service" or even "anyone asked me for anything"
    - hint: if you don't want to take feature requests or bug reports, don't publish software somewhere other people can use it
    - frequently combined with actual entitlement to everyone else's output
        - freedom 0, as applied against noncommercial licenses
            - i'm so, so sorry that you want to make money off of what i do without royalties or even contributing anything back upstream. fuck you pay me
        - complete lack of understanding of the difference between a primary and secondary audience
            - this applies to so much of social media as a whole and plays with parasocial relationships, probably another post
        - the constant annoyance of scraping + archival of all-but-explicitly-ephemeral social media (mastodon / other fedi stuff)
- the assumption that other people have the skills, time, and energy to deal with doing whatever themselves
    - self hosting 
        - doubly so for suggesting single-user instances on fedi, because that's not just technical but also social bullshit
        - it can simultaneously be true that self hosting is the best way to own your own stuff and that it's infeasible for the vast majority of people to do so
    - "just fork it"
        - often in combination with being ridiculously virulent towards forks because how dare you change what i wrote to suit your own needs better
    - just join a committee / moderation team / whatever
    - do i even need to go into how this plays with ableism even when it's not explicitly so
        - example of explicitly so: the bullshit thrown on the Glimpse fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program which had *specific examples of academic institutions &c. avoiding the GNU IMP, which they would have otherwise used, because the official acronym is also an offensive term for people who walk with a limp* backing their decision to fork