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   Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:10:07 JST Luis Villa

   Essay I want someone to write: if you weren’t there, it’s hard to explain how much 1990s FOSS was driven by how *low-quality* proprietary software was. Is enshittification opening a similar window? If not, why not? (My gut is “not” but elucidating why/why not might point the way towards areas of opportunity, either for open or something open-like.)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:14:24 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @luis_in_brief Sadly I don't really think FOSS is the right frame, maybe free/libre would but definitely not open-source as a whole. After all Mozilla has been enshittfying Firefox (which stopped being Free Software at least the moment it added mandatory signatures or DRM, forgot which happened first).
     
     I think enshittification is more corporate-driven software vs. community-driven software.
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     kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:23:24 JST kuteboiCoder

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @luis_in_brief@social.coop
     
     MozFAFO has mandatory signatures? What's that? Why am I so out of the loop?

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:23:24 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • kuteboiCoder
     @KuteboiCoder @luis_in_brief Yup, extensions are required to be signed by Mozilla, this has been a thing for quite a while.