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1. Swanye (swanye@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 08:00:51 UTC Swanye

   If you're unfamiliar with it, FOSS can take a bit to see the supposed advantage but, having found the Fediverse, there's a degree of exhaustion I feel everytime I see some newer proprietary social media site claim /they're/ different and secure and respect the dignity of the individual.

   And, like, cool⸮ So can I run it on my own server? If you implement a change I think is dangerous, can

   • Swanye (swanye@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 08:00:50 UTC Swanye

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     Free software, by virtue of being transparent and free, means I can engage with it, extend it, write plugins for it, interact with the internals, use it like it's mine (because it is) rather than merely, always, just receive.

     That's what I want to underscore, over anything else.

     How you engage with it is fundamentally different; and that's something proprietary works can never offer.

   • Swanye (swanye@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 08:00:51 UTC Swanye

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     someone else take the code and develop it in a different direction?

     At the end of the day, it's still me being in the position of receiving whatever's given to me; I can complain or try to live with it (or leave, entirely) but that's…pretty much it.

     It's not the investment free-software is; FOSS dev. work is work anyone can use, later, without the originator.

     rosa roja repeated this.