Open-source software (FOSS preferred)

FYI, there isn’t really such a thing as “OSS but not FOSS.” The free software definition and the open source definition mostly overlap. Anything that is free software is almost always open source and vice versa.

Haven’t used it, but generally I don’t prefer hardened browsers. IMO the tradeoffs aren’t worth it, personally.

People promoting proprietary software, which directly goes against the rules and purpose of this community

As the article notes they are planning to invest 9 million euros in the transition, so they clearly don’t expect it to be “free of cost.” The difference is paying 15 million euros to license some proprietary American product, versus investing 9 million euros in the free software world.

Interesting detail - the word filter is a per-instance side thing. On a foreign instance I can see the original word.

(I don’t have a problem with the intent of the filter but I kind of expected that the s-thorpe problem had been fixed by now)

“more repos = more apps out of the box” sounds nice in theory but IMO this is more of a downside than it might appear. Having a bunch of repos enabled out of the box means you have to be more careful about which repo offers what app and some apps are even offered in multiple repos. I got bit by this when I installed an app from IzzyOnDroid instead of F-Droid by accident.

With F-Droid you get the baseline repo that has high standards and then you can opt in to having additional repos that may have different or lower standards. Having those extra repos enabled by default may give a false reassurance that those other repos also conform to F-Droid’s standards, or that those other apps are “in F-Droid” when really they’re in IzzyOnDroid or some other third party repo. I’ve seen enough instances of that and there are a few even in this thread.

Note that, although (AFAIK) the Accrescent client is free software, it’s hardcoded to only support their own store which last I checked had no guarantee that it only offers free software. Its marketing seemed to rely a lot on spreading FUD about F-Droid even though it fundamentally serves a different purpose than F-Droid.

This thread is specifically about Android apps, so maybe the better suggestion would be “Fennec F-Droid”

Do you mean F-Droid Basic? F-Droid Classic is a fork, that hasn’t been updated in several years

They may be talking about F-Droid Basic

Given that the server end is self-hostable one could just bundle the frontend and the backend into a single package and run that as an app. I imagine that might be a bit too much though.

Why does it need to be proprietary?

Switching to a proprietary license doesn’t “fund open source” it funds proprietary software

Which, fine, if your business model is incompatible with an open source license then sure. But don’t present it as something it isn’t

Edit: You can dual license under a strong copyleft (strong enough to scare moochers away) and a proprietary license (fauxpen or traditional).

Source availability is necessary but not sufficient for 2 of the 4 freedoms.

Thankfully Immich is protected against rugpulls (i.e. becoming proprietary) by virtue of it not requiring a Contributor License Agreement (CLA), so FUTO doesn’t even own the copyrights to the code. Therefore, if anyone is suspicious of FUTO’s influence over the project, they can simply fork it (and I imagine someone will)

But if you have something doing face detection I would hope it’s stored locally and not sent to a “cloud” no matter who runs it.

“good” is subjective but FUTO’s software is non-free. Their attempts to openwash their proprietary license is enough of a red flag.

No, he was just a talking head that they hired a while ago. According to some in this thread he’s no longer with them today, but I don’t have a source for that.

In fairness, this is an issue with YouTube itself. It seems to take any opportunity it can to push you down a right-wing pipeline.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/29/276000/a-study-of-youtube-comments-shows-how-its-turning-people-onto-the-alt-right/

“FULU” is a consumer rights organization iirc. The name sounds like a spinoff or sister organization to FUTO, but I don’t think there’s an official relationship.

FUTO has always been sus, but privacy redditors gave them a pass because of Rossmann’s involvement.