Why to save LFGSS and what it looks like (the legal way)

One other reason that I think saving LFGSS is important.

This is something that relies on itself.

There are so many examples in recent history of big tech companies growing based on the good will of their userbase, and then reneging on that implied social contract. They either pull the rug out from under you, or they start doing something that is actively against the users.

Some examples spring to mind:

• Twitter and Reddit forcing the use of their official app, resulting in the end of development of 3rd party clients, or Strava and Spotify curtailing API usage
  
• Youtube growing through on user-generated content and then restricting those users' ability to monetise it
  
• Stack Overflow selling users' content as AI training data without their consent, and banning them for protesting against it
  
• Social media platforms algorithmically reducing the visibility of posts that link out to other sites
  
  

I'm sure there are many other examples of enshittification. But this particular form in which you build your "product" on someone else's "platform", and then they yank it out from under you, is one that really troubles me in our potential move to Discord.

Yes, LFGSS relies on @Velocio (hugely!), and Linode, and Cloudflare, and so on. But those relationships are very different than the cases I've outline above - hopefully that is clear. In a sense, it's a platform whose only motivation is to serve itself as best it can. I think that makes LFGSS so special as a place where a genuine sense of community is fostered.