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@Gargron I've never seen a project with more passion on the internet 

@stux @Gargron

Theres many good projects stuxie.

NextCloud, LibreOffice, alternative platforms to big tech services, Matomo, Bitwarden, F-Droid, various phone keyboards.......various Linux distributions too.

@Mixtape @Gargron For sure! But for me Masto is still number 1 by a long shot 😇

@Mixtape @stux @Gargron

It's not a contest I think. People doing cool stuff for society. And we should do cool stuff as well. 

@Mixtape

F-Droid has been a goldmine.

@agnew_hawk

Check out SkyDroid as well as the Aurora Store (Be careful with latter one it can get you in trouble)

@stux
WordPress has a pretty active an passionate community.
@stux
A bulk of my business is built off of #WordPress and the community. But the community around Mastodon is right up there.
@stux
Have you ever seen Debian? Some VERY passionate free software extremists there
@Gargron
@stux @Gargron there's a lot of "Well, actually..." In your replies and I just wanted to say I get what you mean.