I don't mind verbose. $ supertramp -v
> 'the eternal present' Word. This is my greatest fear, that the tyranny of mass surveillance and proprietary software will reach a level of efficiency such that it will be impossible to revive freedom or democracy or human dignity. In my mind this is a fate bad as extinction. The free software movement has achieved a great deal and continues to make progress, but its success is far from inevitable. We must win before we reach the point of no return. I don't know when that point will be, but I think about it in years not decades. Your experience with Diaspora confirms another fear of mine, which is that although Diaspora is free software and its developers are probably well-intentioned, in attempting to replace Facebook they have unintentionally copied many of its malicious features. It is certainly not as bad as Facebook, and its decentralization prevents any addiction to it from being exploited by any one power, but it could still be psychologically harmful.
