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?

  • Gina Häußge@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    6 months ago

    Welcome to the real world, where open source maintenance should be a lot of things but instead boils down to a whole lot of personal sacrifices by maintainers. I don’t like this either, and do what I can to improve it, but that’s a slow process. Idealism is nice, but it doesn’t help here.

    And why do I do this to myself? Because I believe in open source and because I want people to have free access to good tooling. Currently I can afford to do this thanks to crowd funding of my work. I would never accept VC funding.

    Kindly stop insinuating that I’m a turbo capitalist corporate drone, it’s insulting and absolutely ridiculous.

    • chebra@mstdn.io
      13·
      6 months ago

      @foosel So you want to continue sacrificing yourself? Your choice 🤷‍♂️

      Now you are back to believing in open-source, so let’s stop sending users to walled gardens, shall we?

      • Gina Häußge@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, I don’t see this discussion going anywhere given that you are doing your best to misunderstand me, turn my words around on me and just can’t move even one step away from your idealism and instead demand that maintainers cater to that as well on top of everything else.

        Have a nice day, I’m out, I have a project to maintain and a community to manage.

        • chebra@mstdn.io
          02·
          6 months ago

          @foosel Saying that I demand maintainers to cater to my requests can be easily disproven by just looking at my words above where I say the exact opposite. Then who is doing their best to misunderstand and turn words around?