Post Aar29Zo79W7kjVBz4S by kontrollierterWahnwitz@sueden.social
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(DIR) Post #Aakg8FCHmulWTWbgq8 by smallcircles@social.coop
2023-10-14T05:46:17Z
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🤩 Aren't you just delighted by all those proprietary software apps for the #Fediverse? 😮 Don't be. Each time you choose proprietary you help turn the fedi slowly in the direction of the usual corporate hellscape that the rest of the Web already is.😨 And then we end up in an online space where for years we can complain to each other how we squandered an opportunity and how #capitalism won once more.🎯 Use #FOSS apps instead, created by the public for the public.🌻 Keep the Fediverse open.
(DIR) Post #Aar29RXrs2NJ6nWtdY by mativity@aus.social
2023-10-14T05:58:04Z
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@smallcircles can you tell me what i should look out for? Haven’t seen any to my knowledge
(DIR) Post #Aar29SOghecrkcF4y0 by smallcircles@social.coop
2023-10-14T06:05:01Z
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@mativity in particular in area of fediverse clients, most notably targeting Apple platforms, you have various proprietary apps.I won't name specific products, as I don't wanna point accusatory finger in such particular directions. My call is for a general awareness.I imagine that many people, esp. not in geeky circles, are less aware whether or not some app is #OpenSource or not.Yet checking whether it is should be like a habit, in same way as checking if you'd trust apps with your #PII.
(DIR) Post #Aar29TABr2ci7wT10a by kontrollierterWahnwitz@sueden.social
2023-10-14T06:13:09Z
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@smallcircles @mativity Without evil proprietary apps, the search feature introduced in Mastodon 4.2 wouldn’t exist.https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/Grow up.
(DIR) Post #Aar29U4CUnQUvefkJM by kontrollierterWahnwitz@sueden.social
2023-10-14T06:46:23Z
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@smallcircles @mativity Since a reaction on my post was quite rude, I get a little bit in more detail:#FOSS is great. Way more people should use it as they currently do. People should also be aware of the difference between free and proprietary software.Democracies should use #FOSS for their administrations for maximum transparency.Opting for #Mastodon - after #Twitter became the right-wing shithole and Billionaire’s toy it currently is - was a great choice.Talking about choice… 1/x
(DIR) Post #Aar29Uw5GSWnclsmIa by kontrollierterWahnwitz@sueden.social
2023-10-14T07:01:41Z
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@smallcircles @mativity Developers should always have the choice to use the license model they want. In the end the developers have to pay their bills and feed their families. If they only see the opportunity to do that with closed source software, we have to live with it. If their business model is fair, transparent and easy to understand, there is nothing wrong about it. Some older of us can remember shareware. Shareware was (for the most parts) a fair proprietary business model.
(DIR) Post #Aar29VsDmJ24X55Cuu by didek@101010.pl
2023-10-17T07:42:09Z
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@kontrollierterWahnwitz @smallcircles @mativity Shareware was still injust inbalance of power, as developers can do the software to do whatever they want while users don't, that was waiting to be abused.After Internet become popular there is no place for such a model, because you now can't every be sure if there is no remotely controled bug.
(DIR) Post #Aar29Zo79W7kjVBz4S by kontrollierterWahnwitz@sueden.social
2023-10-14T07:13:46Z
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@smallcircles @mativity Speaking about getting older in the computing business. Some of us may remember that some great #FOSS we use every day have their roots in failed proprietary software.Netscape became Firefox and StarOffice transformed to LibreOffice. Also some great tools we use are sponsored by companies which basically sell it bundled with some proprietary assets and their support plan. I look at you, wine and <every payed Linux distribution ever>.