Saddening me time and again is seeing individualism and fragmentation in #FOSS.
#Collaboration between projects that's so often low-hanging fruit, yet never happens. More anticipation of needs, helping each other, be stronger together. Yet it hardly shapes up to the extent that it could.
We seem to lack time to become sustainable, let alone 'win' from #Hypercapitalism. No time to seek collab as we prod on alone.
There are exceptions of course, and better collab tools are becoming available.
This makes no difference if new projects actively choose to go for proprietary platforms instead, and then make up excuses afterwards as to why this choice is supposedly valid.
The #FOSS community needs to understand that they need to actually use free software where possible, or collaboration will be never work out.
@smallcircles Part of the problem is that there are some projects that are somewhat hostile to collaboration or at least seem to be. I've seen contributors get disenchanted with projects and been all but kicked out of a project myself in the past while actively trying to collaborate as best I could. It left hurt feelings, but naturally I don't really have much against them, it's their project. It does mean that my efforts are more focused on other projects though.
@arraybolt3 yes, indeed, there's a lot of those. They are in their right if that has their preference. Though I was also referring to many projects where they know they'd benefit a lot from the collab, yet spending the time to facilitate it is (perceived as) a luxury they (feel they) cannot afford. Even while it may seriously help their long-term sustainability.
@dansup@smallcircles actively collaborating across fediverse projects often requires being willing to meet people where they are, which is all too uncommon when everyone is working in a bubble.
I try to be very active building bridges & sharing ideas / knowledge
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