FOSS for Android
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๐ค A community for sharing and promoting free / libre and open source software on the Android platform.
โจ This means software you are free to modify and distribute, such as applications licensed under the GNU General Public License, BSD license, MIT license, Apache license, etc. and software that isn't designed to restrict you in any way.
๐ฌ๐ป Think of free software as free as in freedom of speech, not free beer.
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If you're going to create an alternative, you'll have to start somewhere, I guess. Especially FOSS projects without real funds for ads in ad networks, etc. Things like that only grow slowly, if at all.
That's why I like the federation approach, like with this Lemmy instance. It's small and maybe it's not gonna take off, but users will still recieve fresh content from other instances, so yeah...
@NettoHikari Indeed, yea. But if you really are constrained geographically then it's less useful for the purpose, haha.
To compare it with the Fediverse - I knew nobody in my country on the Fediverse when I created my account here on Friendica. I just wanted to have a place where I would finally move away from Facebook - with the same goal of socializing with people wherever they might be. And too little people I personally know went here as well. Yet, I stayed because I wasn't constrained geographically to find people (I'm not sure you're anywhere close to Romania right now, haha).
But the purpose of a dating app is not just talking with others, if you know what I mean ๐ . So yea, I do hope it will take off, I'm glad it exists, but it is surely a bigger challenge ๐
Yes, of course. I didn't want to make the direct comparison to the fediverse. But the funding to have something like that take off is definitively necessary.
I'm personally situated in Germany, so I'm not that far away from Romania. I also have my own personal Pleroma instance for similar reasons: I wanted to participate in some "sane" social media and it's actually pretty good. First, I had a private Mastodon instance and then moved to Pleroma, because Mastodon had too many moving parts.
Generally speaking, to me, the Fediverse means "less activity, but higher quality conversations".
@NettoHikari
Yea, I love this part as well. Guess that was one of the reasons I was so fond of G+ back in the day ๐
Oh, you're not far. Hi there! ๐
I get your point now. Yea, I guess I'll try my best myself as well until I find someone that will stop me from doing this anylonger, haha ๐