I thought Misskey/Sharkey was specifically trying to be a Pinterest alternative, while Pixelfed is trying to be an IG alternative and Mastodon is trying to be a Twitter alternative.

YT even has PeerTube as an alternative, and one I wish more people would use as Google inevitably locks down YT further.

Technically there’s also Misskey/Sharkey, but that’s more of a Pinterest alternative, as well as Friendica for a Facebook alternative and Mastodon for a Twitter alternative.

And GoToSocial is the nearest Fediverse alternative to the ‘old web,’ as it were, but you need to host that yourself.

Pixelfed.

What if said manufacturers are funding this legislation so they can get it through as an opportunity to lock printers down? And what if this extends to 2D printers/scanners, and even software/devices in general?

You want a weaker version of the AGPL, that’s what the GPL is.

From my understanding in terms of strength between the three, it’s:

LGPL (weakest) > GPL (middle of the road) > AGPL (strongest)

This blog post goes over it.

Move to KeePassXC or its recent LLM-free fork while you still can, because at some point Bitwarden is going to try to go closed-source again.

Man, the payment processors got bored with NSFW and they’re attacking free software now?

Just host a bare git repo.

Not to mention permissive licensing legally allows a project to go closed-source, effectively rugpulling its userbase, with no recourse.

I keep pushing this as an example, but imagine Bluesky corporate closed-sourcing ATproto and paywalling third-party and self-hosted PDSes once they run out of VC funding and need to start turning a profit somehow, since ATproto is permissively licensed rather than being copyleft licensed, they could do that.

By contrast, copyleft licenses ban this type of rugpulling and GPL3 calls out and bans tivoization (what RH does with the RHEL EULA) by name.

KeePass.

PeerSuite doesn’t require an account and optionally lets you save chat logs in an encrypted file.

That’s actually already a thing potentially, TV and even appliance makers have been fielding using meshnet tech to spy on users regardless of if they’re connected to the web or not for a while now.

Assuming they don’t start using meshnet to spy on you anyways.

Fooyin is great as a FOSS and also Linux-native Foobar2k replacement if playing back locally-stored music. Also, MPD and your choice of a client for streaming from another server in your place.

Sebo stuff is also built really well too, or it better be given it’s commonly abused in commercial settings; think hotels and schools and the like, plus bypass designs like what Sebo typically uses mean sucking things up like coins won’t break your machine, vs. direct-air designs like what Kirby uses in which sucking up hard objects will break your machine.

Just buy a normal vacuum since those can still be used without web connectivity. Avoid anything made by TTI if you want your shit to last though. Also, avoid Kirby and Rainbow due to their scammy business model and extortionate pricing (seriously, quad figures for a vacuum is ridiculous even without the scammy business model).

Given BSD is supposed to be a complete package while Linux has a separate kernel and userland, that’s probably why.

That won’t be of much good should Tor or I2P get taken down too, and a major Tor exit node operator recently getting arrested doesn’t spell anything good on that end.