I sometimes wish that too. I only participated to the extent that I was selling a handful of my own algorithmic art pieces for the sole purpose of raising funds for my ongoing open source work and on one occasion donations to the Ukraine humanitarian fund... Otherwise I was touching that "community" only with a long stick, since I also (from early on) had to bring up criticism (in my eyes fully deserved) about dangerous scamming, speculation, other reckless behaviors and repeated attempts to rewrite history, about discrediting & ignoring people who've been enabling and paving the way for years/decades prior etc. Fueled by the smell of quick fame & money, it wasn't just that new community, but also older peers who I always thought would have shared values, but who quickly turned out to be a source of profound alienation & disappointment, much like what I see happening again in different FLOSS communities at the moment...
Jack Rusher (npub1s8h…zg6y)
Karsten Schmidt
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2026-10-17 20:47:28 UTC
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