Comment by rockskon
Feels a lot less joyful to be involved in open source than it used to be when there's just not as much of a culture of respect/"respect" or even the knowledge that you're making the world a better place for individuals.
It's difficult for me to point to any one specific cause of this. I want to say the reduced control over your own computing environment, far greater propensity for litigation and control, and the reduced or eliminated means of using social media website APIs to curate your own online experience.
Everything's feels so helpless and the primary reasons to solve these don't feel like they're technical in nature. They used to always feel technical in nature.
I have to wonder how much of the problem space of individual empowerment is even left for technology to fix?
That all said....
There's a lot of comparatively wealthy engineers and programmers out there. Enough to fund a powerhouse of a lobbying force. But lobbying to change what is the question?