This article would have convinced me a few years ago, but I’ve tried choosing the “right” technologies and tools unsuccessfully for too long to fall for it now. You can be idealistic or you can be successful, but it’s very difficult to be both. I know I’ve lost a lot of community building potential trying to get people to come over to the correct, open-source, democratized technology, instead of the proprietary tool/platform they’re used to. But at the end of the day, an active discord server is a lot better than a dead forum.
What are those ideals and how are they relevant to your project? What do you expect out of participants of a project other than a willingness to collaborate and work on that project?
Why would you (or anyone) be working on a project that is not highly relevant to your ideals? That seems like it would be a huge waste of a very short window of opportunity.
You didn't answer my question. Therefore it's still unclear to me what ideals you are talking about.
My ideals, as far as I think they concern a project I work on, is that I want to work on the project. The use of non-free software doesn't preclude those ideals.
