The main reason I was interested in this community is because it was FOSS only. Lots of people on Lemmy talk about proprietary clients already. It’s sad IMO that people would use a proprietary client after all that happened with reddit.
The problem with restricting this community to FOSS is that you’re also choking out people/organizations that simply want to retain ownership of what they create or seek long-term sustainability. Retaining ownership of something or charging for something doesn’t automatically mean malicious intent. Both FOSS and proprietary have their place, and each one can be more sustainable than the other depending on the project and the maintainers. We should definitely be against people and companies that are exploiting user privacy, but we shouldn’t be banning everyone that simply wish to retain ownership of what they create as well.
The main reason I was interested in this community is because it was FOSS only. Lots of people on Lemmy talk about proprietary clients already. It’s sad IMO that people would use a proprietary client after all that happened with reddit.
The problem with restricting this community to FOSS is that you’re also choking out people/organizations that simply want to retain ownership of what they create or seek long-term sustainability. Retaining ownership of something or charging for something doesn’t automatically mean malicious intent. Both FOSS and proprietary have their place, and each one can be more sustainable than the other depending on the project and the maintainers. We should definitely be against people and companies that are exploiting user privacy, but we shouldn’t be banning everyone that simply wish to retain ownership of what they create as well.
Yeah i wish i could go that way but notany people wants this community to go that way it seems