Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@Mayobrot so what is the larger picture?

@lowqualityfacts glorified plagiarism is what that system is all about.

If an individual plagiarizes something, that's considered bad and they may get punished.

If a huge organization does it systematically and for profit, somehow it's not considered bad anymore but it is apparently very impressive "innovation" or something.

@Mayobrot are you teaching ethics?

@jake2 but it can still make sense to tell people to boycott.

Example: let's say a mafia organization has a monopoly on selling drugs in my city. If I go around telling people in that city to boycott (i.e. to stop taking drugs), does that not make sense?

@meraord Son of a Preacher Man

@popey Heh, "automatic snap registration" -- what could go wrong? 🙂

@cosmin For those projects, it is still google that makes the important decisions about future versions and so on. Google leads and they follow. They cannot really say that they are independent from google.

I think the FOSS world should build what we want according to our needs, where freedom and power for the user is the core principle. We should not need to care about what google thinks, and whatever google's business decisions are, that should be irrelevant for us.

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@cosmin about Replicant and other "de-googled" android variants, while I respect the effort to try to make something free from google, I think the resources and effort spent on those would be better spent building something that is meant to be free from the beginning, instead of taking what google made and trying to strip away the bad parts.

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@raktapadma @clacke oh that is super useful, I have been wishing for something like that. Thank you!

@JoWa tack!

@m14i@mastodon.social @randahl @mastodonusercount better to try to count "monthly active" accounts, to avoid the abandoned ones?

I guess this is more of an issue for mastodon than for centralized things, because a person who created accounts on multiple instances may look like multiple people in the statistics?

@DavBot I think there is hope, not least because of the strong support for human rights, so strong that pretty much everyone signed a UN declaration about it a long time ago. That includes the right to private communication, for example.

That was a long time ago, since then the "digital" things crept up on us and most people have not yet understood that the struggle for FOSS is fundamentally the same as the one for human rights. But I think they will see it, eventually.

@jake2 thanks for commenting but I don't understand what you mean. Would you like to elaborate?

@DavBot

> it all doesn't have to be
> everything all at once too

Agreed, as long as people don't think they're done because they took one little step. In that case: well done, good step, now think about the next step!

@xianc78 perhaps a used ThinkPad with libreboot by @libreleah from https://minifree.org/ ? They are pretty good.

If you tell people to "just search for it" instead of giving them a link, you need to change that too: you are effectively giving google the power to decide what people will find.

Oh and one more thing: when you leave google, make sure to not end up in the claws of another of the giants that are no better, like Apple or Microsoft. They are equally bad.

Be free! Do not let google own you, and do not help google own others around you.

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If you share links to youtube videos, stop doing that right now! There are alternatives, see #PeerTube

If you use gmail, switch to another service right now!

If you use an android phone, throw that away and help build #MobileLinux instead. As long as you are using android, you are helping google preserve its dangerous near-monopoly.

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If you like democracy and human rights, then you must stay away from google because of the huge power that company has, power that is outside the reach of any democratic institution. Google's power is not used to benefit people, instead it is used to increase Google's profits and power even further.

Oh and if you are a google user, then don't blame anyone else -- you are the problem! You need to change.

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If you lean left, then it should be obvious that you should not allow such a huge for-profit company to have power over you, and over society around you.

If you lean right, then htink about the size of the company and its monopoly situation. The company is so large that it has long ago passed the point where there was meaningful competition in a marketplace. A this point it just stays in power due to its monopoly.

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This is for anyone using Google things, their search, their email, youtube, android, all that crap. Stop using that right now!

Google is a company so large that it's value is more than a trillion (1 000 000 000 000) USD. That should be enough information for you to understand that you should stay far away from their disgusting "products".

No matter where you stand politically, the conclusion is the same: stay away from google.

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