On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:54:02 +0300 Jean Louis via Replicant <replicant@osuosl.org> wrote:
> I agree. > > Though downloading videos is not "social" activity, but participating > in chat on YouTube is centralized as it is centralized social network, > one can do that only with Youtube account. > > I prefer NOT to have the software piece in free software distribution > that serves only the vendor and vendor's lock-in and is not usable for > nothing else. > > Examples: > ━━━━━━━━━ > > - Mastodon applications can access various networks, ALRIGHT, > everybody can host Mastodon instances; > > - NewPipe is for downloading videos, ALRIGHT, there is no username or > lock-in > > - Email, ALRIGHT, everybody can host Mastodon instances; > > - Telegram, NOT ALRIGHT, as I cannot have my own Telegram server, it > was designed to lock-in users; software is free but there is no > possibility to modify it to work with my own server. I'm impressed, this is indeed a good criteria. I am wondering about possible exceptions and corner cases, though. What about software for uploading tax reports? Wojtek -- website: https://koszko.org/koszko.html PGP: https://koszko.org/key.gpg fingerprint: E972 7060 E3C5 637C 8A4F 4B42 4BC5 221C 5A79 FD1A
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