Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 137

@LWFlouisa The article I was referencing was linked here:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/101244096763380913

... or to put it another way, replacing all the proprietary software in a drone with free code does not, by itself, make the drone an ethical product. In fact, the #FourFreedoms guarantee that anything you build into the drone to stop it being used to assassinate people can be removed. What we want to know
@matthieuaubry is why you think this analogy doesn't apply to tag managers and other digital analytics tools.
@aral @Matomo

@waterbear I get frustrated with this as well, but I also see how it makes sense from their POV. My fanatical devotion to #SoftwareFreedom results in huge amounts of time spent a) researching new tools, and b) constantly repairing my tools. Even though my main product is a blog about ethical design and the commons, so these experiences can be mined for raw materials, I find this frustrating. If I was designing a more generic product, and had deadlines to meet ...
@bob @jcbrand @Aerdan @aemon

Thanks @bobjonkman . BTW Great to see someone still using #GNUsocial. Do you know how their #ActivityPub support is coming along?

It's a bit more complicated than that @aemon . People can't just pick another XMPP server, login with their Google account, and have it smoothly integrated with GMail. So from that POV, they are stuck with whatever Google picks. If even a single #FreeCode email client integrated XMPP chat, folks could have switched to that (even while keeping their GMail address), but there wasn't one, and there still isn't. #Thunderbird is trying but the #UX of the integration needs work
@bob @jcbrand @Aerdan

@clacke magic, you mean like casting spells, using invocations found in obscure spellbooks? Isn't that exactly what using the command line is like? ;-P

This is what we look like from the POV of an average user ;-)

'How I Quit Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon' - Daniel Oberhaus
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev3qw7/how-to-quit-apple-microsoft-google-facebook-amazon

History repeats ....
https://www.cbronline.com/feature/openbook-opensource-socialmedia

@whonose123 just to be clear, I'm *not* arguing that China isn't an authoritarian police states. What I'm really arguing is that the phrase is a tautology, there's no other kind (see also my recent post about #GuantanamoBay).

I also like the way this article distinguishes between compromise (where nobody gets what they want), and trying to come up with a new and better idea that hybridizes the best elements of each person's proposal. The article calls "collaboration", and fair enough, but this is what people who promote consensus decision-making mean by "consensus".

“be curious, not furious.” This is my new motto for all online communication ;-)
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-argue-better-with-your-partner-1831076056

@xj9 OMG, this! A thousands times this! As I said to someone else the other day, you can invent the most elegant and efficient back-end you like. It it doesn't have a great UX that drives adoption and network effect, you might as well tattoo your source code on the side of a herd of elephants, and compile it by starting a stampede ;-P
@jcbrand

@raucao @jcbrand the problem there appears to be people buying #iThings. The solutions would appear to be a) stop buying iThings, and b) come up with ways to jailbreak all existing iThings and replace iOS with a fully free code OS, along the lines of what #PostMarketOS is doing for #Android.

@ayy cool. Will you join an existing project that implements XMPP, or start your own? Be aware that a lot of people have started and abandoned XMPP apps, especially web apps, see:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/slacking-off

I'd suggest supporting an existing project first.
@jcbrand

@rick_777 @aral well, they are a #FOSS analytics software company. Do you think that publishing on the #fediverse protects you from datamining? Have you heard of search engines? They crawl and index every public post anyone makes on any fediverse app. This is datamining.

@aral @Matomo The problem is there are fundamental conflicts between what digital privacy requires and what digital marketing demands, and it's not just commercial users at fault here. I know activists who use #MailChimp because they want to know how many subscribers click on the links in their newsletter #FacePalm. I imagine there are probably similar problems with #Mautic.
https://www.mautic.org/

@Matomo are you still looking for a PHP/JS hacker in NZ?