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contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://en.osm.town/@simon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>simon</span></a></span> Ideally, one would <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHost</span></a>, on one's own terms. And if one moves to Codeberg (which uses <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreedomRespecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomRespecting</span></a> Forgejo), one still has the benefit of easily being able to move to a self-hosted Forgejo later. That's not so easy with GitHub and its mountain of proprietary features.</p><p>Thus, self-hosting is best. Community-run instances like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Codeberg</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nixnet.social/users/disroot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disroot</span></a></span> come second. And <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/proprietary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proprietary</span></a> platforms are a plague.</p><p>2/</p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>On the train ride back from Patna (<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/BiharFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiharFOSS</span></a>), <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.io/@ravi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ravi</span></a></span> and I sardonically thanked Trump for the state of things in the US, which may have been why <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> disabled the <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OrganicMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganicMaps</span></a> repo and forced them to move to <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreedomRespecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomRespecting</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Forgejo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forgejo</span></a>.</p><p>"This will hopefully teach people why it's important to boycott <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/proprietary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proprietary</span></a> platforms. But why do people always wait around for such things to pass? <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> activists had been warning them for like 10 years!" (Also...Sourceforge???)</p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>Also, <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a>, <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Libre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libre</span></a> / <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> /mukt/āzād/swatantra software...all describe the effect on _the software_...that the software is freed from being private property. (We could even call it <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchist</span></a> software 🙃)</p><p>That's good, but I'm more interested in describing the effect of such software on its _users_...hence, <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreedomRespecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomRespecting</span></a> software.</p><p>4/</p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>But I expect "<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreedomRespecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomRespecting</span></a> software" to provoke the question, "How can software be freedom-respecting?" A bit like hearing "Nonviolent Communication" sparks the question, "How can communication be nonviolent? Is there also such a thing as violent communication?" and potentially engages you in learning.</p><p>We're not always there to explain or provoke questions ourselves, so something that may do so automatically is desirable...</p><p>2/</p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>People new to <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> assume it's "free as in free beer". <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> misses the point - it's about the freedom (and for so many in India, "open source" = "free as in free beer" 😮‍💨🤦‍♀️). <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Libre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libre</span></a> is unfamiliar and not self-explanatory.</p><p>That's why I call it <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreedomRespecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomRespecting</span></a> software. Can we all please switch to that?</p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@evanchaney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>evanchaney</span></a></span> What <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> respecting alternatives should <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> users move to? 🤔</p><p>Fairphone is only available in the EU, last I checked.</p><p>Android could work if you never use a Google account and stick to <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreedomRespecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomRespecting</span></a> software such as F-Droid instead of Play Store.</p><p>AOSP ROMs (such as <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/LineageOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LineageOS</span></a>) are ideal, but that usually entails buying used, or paying top-dollar to Google for a Pixel. There are probably local <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> communities who'd love to help with the installation process.</p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>Friendly reminder that the opposite of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FreedomRespecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomRespecting</span></a> software is not "paid software" - there's plenty of software which is both 🙂</p><p>Conversations, Cheogram, Monocles Chat, and OsmAnd come to mind...any other examples?</p>
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