I'm a long-time riseup user; I'm also a contributor to the Thunderbird project. As you probably don't know, Thunderbird is governed rather strictly, despite the governing council being elected. (I use the term "governed" intentionally here.) Specifically, the main discussion list, tb-planning@mozilla.org , is restrictively moderated in a way which hinders free discussion of critique of the state of affairs and the people in central positions. Myself and a couple of other contributors are considering starting a "free Thunderbird discussion" list as an alternative or supplement.
I am wondering whether to offer my colleagues to open the list here.
On the one hand - Thunderbird is a free software project, which is a relevant positive goal to promote; and the aim of the list is to counter centralized power in how the project is run.
On the other hand - neither the project nor the contributors are fundamentally committed to wide-reaching social change, redistribution of wealth, righting of social wrongs etc. Just a quality email client with functional flexibility, support for privacy etc.
What do you think?
