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2023-02-25 07:18:46

Marlene Breitenstein Art via Fediverse News

breitensteinart@mastodon.art

@atomicpoet @fediversenews — Mozilla is all well and good, but this concerns me from a bigger picture standpoint. How do VCS plan to capitalize off the Fediverse? This is a free and open source model.

2023-02-25 12:51:06

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

#Proprietary, #NonFree, #Commercial, #ClosedSource iPhone and (maybe) Android apps which secretly siphon all data they can and sell it to Google and Facebook without the user ever noticing, much less consenting to it.

This is particularly tempting on iOS where it's very difficult to offer #FreeLibreOpenSourceSoftware because the Apple App Store makes it almost impossible to comply with certain #FreeSoftware licenses, and other app sources are basically illegal AFAIK.

On Android, one could say that apps on the Google Play Store are either also available on F-Droid or closed-source spyware that secretly hands your private data over to Google and Facebook.

2023-02-25 13:27:45

Codex ☯️♈☮

CodexArcanum@hachyderm.io

@jupiter_rowland

1. Make proprietary app
2. Harvest user data in secret.
3. Extend app with proprietary, exclusive functionality. (Searching! Auto-threaded-posts with unrolling! Community management tools! Encrypted DMs! DRM'd video content! Shared monetization!)
4. Reach critical mass of users.
5. Defederate, lock users in, start selling years of accumulated profile data.
6. Sell your valuable company/users to some rich sucker and start over again.