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  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    163·
    9 months ago

    I think it’s a bad idea. Foss communities already exist and the largest two lemmy apps by user base are sync and boost.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    I don’t think limiting this community to fewer apps is going to boost engagement or activity; just my two cents.

    (Edit: There just aren’t that many new exciting Lemmy app developments to post about I guess? Maybe encouraging/cross posting from various feature update/release posts in other communities would help?)

  • silas@programming.devEnglish
    101·
    9 months ago

    Under this criteria, Apollo would have been banned. I feel like everyone has been very respectful in posting open source, closed source, paid, and free apps alike here so far. What are the exact problems in this community that you’re trying to solve?

    • THE MASTERMIND@lemmy.todayOP
      41·
      9 months ago

      Introduce people to better foss and privacy respecting apps . Now a very large chunk of lemmy users use apps like boost and sync which tracks users.

      • silas@programming.devEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        So you’re saying the main issue with this community is that Lemmy users are stumbling upon apps that track them? What about free, closed-source apps that fully respect privacy?

        I think having a featured thread that categorizes apps by open/closed source or privacy policies would be better. More transparency should be the goal here, especially since FOSS app communities already exist.

        • THE MASTERMIND@lemmy.todayOP
          34·
          9 months ago

          What about free, closed-source apps that fully respect privacy?

          Can you provide an example because if an app is free and fully respect privacy it wouldn’t be closed.

          So you’re saying the main issue with this community is that Lemmy users are stumbling upon apps that track them?

          No not stumbling as i said i said there are aldready subs for them and in here i want to promote foss apps

          • CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world
            11·
            9 months ago

            My app Arctic falls into the free, closed source, privacy respecting category. I see what your going for as far as a direction for the community, but it is limiting for apps such as mine. Just because software is free, and doesn’t track its users does not necessarily mean it needs to be open source. Closed source software also does not equate to being nefarious or tracking users.

            I’m a big fan of FOSS, and am working towards open sourcing components of Arctic, but I haven’t decided whether I want to fully open source the project.

            What I’d prefer to see is requirements for post formatting. So all submissions need to include information about the client

            • pricing (free) (paid) (freemium) (IAP)
            • source (closed-source) (open-source)
            • tracking (ads) (crashlitics) (anonymous) (etc)
            • platforms (web) (windows) (linux) (iOS) (android) (cross)

            I’m a fan of this community because it is the only one I’ve found that is targeted specifically at providing information about lemmy clients, and with the proposed changes, I see that information becoming more fragmented. I’d rather see changes along the lines of what I suggested, or similar, and then maybe a new community could be born (FOSSLemmyApps) which could be advertised in a stickied post here, and included in the sidebar.

            Ultimately, it is up to you as the moderator, but I do hope you’ll consider feedback from the existing subscribers. Perhaps an open discussion, or a poll would be good for getting feedback about the proposed changes.

  • librecat@lemmy.basedcount.com
    42·
    9 months ago

    The main reason I was interested in this community is because it was FOSS only. Lots of people on Lemmy talk about proprietary clients already. It’s sad IMO that people would use a proprietary client after all that happened with reddit.

    • silas@programming.devEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      The problem with restricting this community to FOSS is that you’re also choking out people/organizations that simply want to retain ownership of what they create or seek long-term sustainability. Retaining ownership of something or charging for something doesn’t automatically mean malicious intent. Both FOSS and proprietary have their place, and each one can be more sustainable than the other depending on the project and the maintainers. We should definitely be against people and companies that are exploiting user privacy, but we shouldn’t be banning everyone that simply wish to retain ownership of what they create as well.