RMS/ESR/etc. are very deeply flawed, and rather unsuitable as figureheads for their ideas.

this doesn't mean software freedom is somehow bad, and it doesn't mean we should frame social movements as being fundamentally at odds with it by association.

I am extremely suspect of people (esp. on birb) sowing discontent with such broad scope.

it's extremely useful for tech corporations if the core principles of copyleft get dragged through the mud. let's not align with them either.

I think we need more - and more focus on - alternative orgs to the FSF, aligned with their primary goals, but with leadership consisting primarily of people of color, queers, women, people with disabilities.

to actually demonstrate that software freedom is instrumental in people freedom, when it comes to empowering those marginalized folks that tech companies would likely suppress.

much of our fediverse's software - and many of its denizens - demonstrate these properties.

@lifning I think someone really ought to write an alternative strong copy-left license that is not incompatible with, but is distinct from the GPL, mostly to avoid seceding all moral power to the FSF, partially because more choices are always good.