cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3932795
I thought about this already for a while and with Lemmy and Mastodon the opensource community has a place to really try itself out and coordinate. Then even things like open-source planning-systems (like at Amazon) and AIs are possible.
At least in Germany there is currently no really political movement that could be described as left-libertarian at least seriously. Maybe the Fediverse could be the root for something like that.
Or will the Fediverse will become more like the new landscape of the internet, which encompasses everything and in which every party will need to move and have a certain stance to somehow?
No.
Developers of opensource software have been coordinating around complex problems for decades. I don’t think lemmy or mastodon can contribute much to that.
I don’t see why the fediverse needs to be co-opted into any particular political ideology. All political interests are free to create their own instances and / or use the fediverse as they wish. I don’t think it’s any more suited to left-libertarian than any other ideology.
I also don’t see the fediverse being a “new landscape”. The majority of people will always gravitate towards well funded corporate platforms. I would be really happy with the fediverse staying as it is now, I mean of course everyone is free to join but if it became the new normal then I’d have to find somewhere else to spend my time.
All decentralized networks and ways of organizing efforts (such as FOSS) are structurally left-libertarian as that is an politician ideology that describes such as the proposed way of organizing our society. It is literally the same.
Sure, the results of our combined structural and decentralized efforts can be temporarily abused by people not in favour of such means, but as long as they are using them it means we are ultimately winning.