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Julian Foad Dec 2, 2024

Moment of joy: discovering a #freeSoftware mobile app is available through a freedom-respecting app store such as @fdroidorg or another #fDroidCompatible repository (not just through Big Tech stores).

https://wrily.foad.me.uk/foss-apps-live-in-foss-app-stores

#actuallyFreeSoftware #useOpenTools

FOSS Apps Live in FOSS App Stores!

Don't lock a FOSS Android app in Google's proprietary store! Many of us are looking to FOSS solutions in order to keep our digital lives...

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Julian Foad Dec 2, 2024

Moment of joy: looking up a #freeSoftware app and finding it's in a freedom-respecting forge such as #Codeberg or #SourceHut or on its #ownDomain (and not fed to Microsoft github).

https://wrily.foad.me.uk/open-tech-be-afraid-microsoft
https://wrily.foad.me.uk/your-foss-project-deserves-its-own-domain
https://wrily.foad.me.uk/foss-apps-live-in-foss-forges

#GiveUpGithub #useOpenTools

Open tech, be afraid.

Soon after leaving GitPod whose technology links the two, Geoffrey Hunt last year explained their strategy and what it's doing to our open tech world, in a great and "harrowing" article, "Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture" https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ "The future of software development tooling that is being built is closed as \\\\, and people seem to be okay with it..." This is ...

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Julian Foad Dec 2, 2024

We who value #FLOSS, #openTech, #openProtocols can't fail to notice how dearly we need one another's support. So when I hear "join our Discord"* from a supposedly #freedomTech project my heart sinks. We should feed the proprietary silo? Deny our community the very freedom and joy of using open tech? Oppose our own work and values? How sad, how ridiculous. No! We must turn towards our #freedomTech cousins.

#DitchDiscord #useOpenTools

https://wrily.foad.me.uk/discord-vs-community-values

* (It's not "yours" BTW.)

#ownDomain #Matrix #Discourse

Discord vs Community Values

I wrote this piece in response to a particular organisation that empowers local people to create tech solutions matching community values...

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Julian Foad Dec 2, 2024

@wildrose_dev Congratulations on publishing your freedom-respecting code! And I'm delighted to see you deliberately chose a freedom-respecting forge, #Codeberg, as its public home! You resisted the urge to carelessly feed it to Microsoft (github) like the common people do. Your vote for freedom matters. In case you're interested in that angle: https://wrily.foad.me.uk/foss-apps-live-in-foss-forges .

#GiveUpGithub #useOpenTools #Codeberg

FOSS Apps Live in FOSS Forges

Software is a process, and whoever controls it ultimately decides what the developers can do and how they communicate. The elephant in...

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