smallcircles,
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

🤩 Aren't you just delighted by all those proprietary software apps for the #Fediverse?

😮 Don't be. Each time you choose proprietary you help turn the fedi slowly in the direction of the usual corporate hellscape that the rest of the Web already is.

😨 And then we end up in an online space where for years we can complain to each other how we squandered an opportunity and how #capitalism won once more.

🎯 Use #FOSS apps instead, created by the public for the public.

🌻 Keep the Fediverse open.

Brendanjones,
@Brendanjones@fosstodon.org avatar

@smallcircles which iOS clients are FOSS? I'd happily choose a FOSS option over proprietary if it had feature and design parity with the existing options (or near to it, and I could meaningfully contribute).

I wonder what stops app developers building open? It's such a cutthroat space, could code stealing (without attribution) be a concern leading them to take the easier option of closed code?

mativity,
@mativity@aus.social avatar

@smallcircles can you tell me what i should look out for? Haven’t seen any to my knowledge

smallcircles,
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

@mativity in particular in area of fediverse clients, most notably targeting Apple platforms, you have various proprietary apps.

I won't name specific products, as I don't wanna point accusatory finger in such particular directions. My call is for a general awareness.

I imagine that many people, esp. not in geeky circles, are less aware whether or not some app is or not.

Yet checking whether it is should be like a habit, in same way as checking if you'd trust apps with your .

binaryhelix,
@binaryhelix@mastodon.social avatar

@smallcircles @mativity other than directly naming explaining to non-geeky people which iOS apps are proprietary and which are FOSS, what alternative communication strategy do you think might be helpful?

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