for those who haven't seen our previous thoughts on this topic, we do still stand by our old pieces at

https://irenes.space/leaves/2024-09-29-technology-community-idealism

and

https://irenes.space/leaves/2024-09-29-xz-and-community

we'd like to think that in this thread we're going slightly beyond those pieces, but if there's anything we didn't go into enough depth in here, we probably did over there