It feels like a dream, 10 years ago, chatting with people from many projects, excited about the world we were building towards.

There was a "free software" community then, full of folks who cared deeply about human rights and freedom and who saw free and open software systems as an important part of that work.

That community is gone. Fractured by problems discussed then that, in hindsight, I now understand to be deeply rooted in the tenets and infrastructure of the movement.