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• @smallcircles@social.coop 2026-11-07 07:16

  @riverpunk@defcon.social @iris_meredith@mastodon.social I should really write that blog post on SOSS at https://coding.social but lack the time. 😔 FOSS has won, but it is only about the code with the 4 freedoms attached. Many well-meaning individuals, but in-the-large it has enabled Big Tech's success, and also LLMs. It earns trillions for the global economy. Meanwhile the movement of *FOSS creators* is inherently unsustainable. SOSS stands for Sustainable open social software -> systems -> services -> solutions. Overarching focus of SOSS initiatives is holistic sustainability. SOSS initiatives emphasize the process, where the delivery at the end of the pipeline is FOSS. Software is only a solution if it satisfies stated needs of its stakeholders, *including* the developer as stakeholder. Devs should drop the notion of "users", as it clouds this focus on needs. Any solution has a lifecycle from inception to end-of-life during which it evolves based on changing needs: The Free software development lifecycle.

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