Very cool article but mainly because I was bracing for more nonsense about how stripped down apps can help “dopamine fasting” - which like paranoia about antivirus or mugging level threats has completely overtaken many otherwise terrific projects and leads people to do insane things like destroy searching public posts on one’s own website to provide people a security blanket

Instead this gets to one of the core problems with open source. Let’s dig even deeper. Most open source contributors are depressed knowing they serve an industry dominated by imperialists who care nothing for them and will actively warp communities into digital company towns, instigate new forms of bullying and low grade civil conflict, and open source development is basically a coping mechanism that can sometimes serve as a justification to stay in the industry