Nostr Web Client

The current world perceives "open source" as an inherently socialist concept and is beginning to serve as dogfooding for all kinds of leftists. I feel as if voluntarists have no answer to this. Open source plays no fundamental role in anarcho-capitalism and other liberal movements — and in my opinion, this is a mistake, because it is one of the most important components of the society of the future...

> "The problem is the same problem with many open source communities, in that they are rabidly leftist and obsessed with purging anyone who isn't so. So they practice the typical leftist tactic of constantly expnding their foothold (install base) and then proceeding to dictate who can contribute and donate and even speak."

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Globe99 3w ago

"Open source plays no fundamental role in anarcho-capitalism and other liberal movements"

I see this all the time in the inability of the Bitcoin community to grapple with some of the thorny issues surrounding the fact that Bitcoin development is, fundamentally, an open-source project...

And like any open-source project, the development winds up being sort of "anarcho-communist" in practice. We all get together, "do as each according to our ability", and arrive at a consensus on decisions. Nobody "owns" this. It's Zucotti Park in cyberspace.

Bitcoin _itself_ on the other hand is the most real manifestation of an anarcho-capitalist economic system that was ever invented.

Bitcoiners who don't understand this dialectic wind up getting forced into this sort of "siege mentality", who's going to "win?" idea.

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tree 木 3w ago

Do you know Ivan Illich? I think this man came up with theories that, when combined with ancap or voluntarism, could work very well (and not going in direction of communism)

"The vernacular domain. Illich contrasts the commodified, professionalized world with the "vernacular"—modes of living, producing, and relating that exist outside market exchange and institutional management. Vernacular competence is learned informally, practiced in common, and adapted to local conditions. It represents the autonomous substrate of human capability that institutions systematically erode."

tree 木 3w ago

I'm thinking about how it could work, I call it "anarcho-convivialism"

https://tangled.org/strings/did:plc:524tuhdhh3m7li5gycdn6boe/3m7g6bh76hi22

tree 木 3w ago

Bitcoin, Nostr and other useful open-source software can be defined as "convivial" technology

hodlbod 3w ago

I love Illich, I'm going to give a talk about digital conviviality in January. I only learned about you this morning, but would you come on nostr:nprofile1qqsdluwc0qu62t3el7nxl93387gmppe56jkvm88vcuwh3lpw4fcevwsc4as3x?

Globe99 3w ago

yes this is the guy who makes the client I use #coracle, you should go on his podcast 😁

tree 木 3w ago

Oh, thank you very much for the offer, it's an honor! :) But I must politely decline, public speaking in podcasts and at conferences is not for me, but maybe that will change in future when I finish my anarcho-convivial study!

btw, Illich was a genius. His ideas answered many of my philosophical questions. I am not surprised that he is not so well known, that we do not learn about him in schools - because he predicted very well where today's "democracies" are headed and that its irreparable.

hodlbod 3w ago

I agree, he really cuts through a lot of the left/right tribalism too

Globe99 3w ago

Not familiar, but I'll check it out.. .thanks!