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Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus.

For example, Github is the most popular place to store your project code and we all know, who owns it. And not to forget that sketchy AI training on every line of your code. Don't we have alternatives? Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.

Also, Crowdin is very popular in terms of software (and docs) translation. Even Privacy Guides and The New Oil use Crowdin, even though we have FLOSS Weblate, that you can easily self-host or use public instances.

So, my question is: if you are building a FLOSS / privacy related project, why using proprietary and privacy invasive tools?

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 4 months ago (42 children)

A lot of people use Github because it's easy to use and popular. Not everyone wants to self host, although it would be nice if the larger projects did. What I really hate is when open source projects use something like disord for support.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Whenever I see a project which the support relies on Discord, I ignore it, or I treat it as if it doesn't have support at all.

I refuse to participate in a community which makes Meta looking like a privacy focused company.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I do the same—& software makers should take note that they are fargmenting their communities

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

makes Meta looking like a privacy focused company

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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