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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 21:03:42 JST Aral Balkan

   When trying to find “European alternatives” to US products – to avoid looking like a 🤡 – ensure that your “alternative” is not funded by US venture capital.

   #EU #US #alternatives #capitalism #ventureCapital

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:28:38 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Framasoft
     • (roll m3tti)

     @m3tti Nice. If it’s going to be open source, please choose a technology that’s easy enough for more people to understand and contribute to (so in this case, if those are your two options – I can’t believe I’m saying this – I’d go with – nope, still can’t believe it – PHP) :)

     Also, I’d look at what the @Framasoft folks already have up and running :)

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     (roll m3tti) (m3tti@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:28:39 JST (roll m3tti)

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     @aral i'm currently considering to write an calander service like calendly in php or lisp no clue yet but this would be hosted in germany if there is any interest

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     zeh (zeh@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:29:46 JST zeh

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     @aral
     Goes beyond this. Why would "european alternatives" be or become any less fascist than others?

     We need *our* own alternatives. Spend time and effort on systems under our control. Do not depend on centralised platforms, either from the usa or europe. #Autonomy #DigitalAutonomy

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:29:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     • zeh

     @zeh Couldn’t agree with you more :)

     https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

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     Ati (ati1@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 15:50:48 JST Ati

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     @aral It seems to be easier with software. You just go FOSS and voila. US venture capital stays away from it 😆. It takes taxpayers money to secure open source tech for the benefit of whole societes. For example EU / German taxpayers money through Sovereign Tech Fund.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 15:50:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ati

     @ati1 They only stay away from the “F” and only then, if the “F” uses the AGPL if it’s for networked use. So we have to be careful to state exactly what we mean by “FOSS.”. Otherwise, they’re perfectly happy to take “liberally licensed” open source (open as in “open for business”) and enclose it. Or even use GPL licensed code on servers. Don’t forget that the Big Web – and thus surveillance capitalism – mostly runs on Linux.

     #FOSS #openSource #capitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #USA #fascism #alternatives

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 16:03:34 JST May Likes Toronto

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     • Ati

     @aral @ati1 I broke the new corporate lawyers brain when I told him that IBM would separately package GPL-licensed code as a stand-alone thing when you buy our proprietary software. As long as we could package the GPL software separately, it was all approved as an overall product. You'd never know unless you dug into the installers and the notices.