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Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 13 hours ago

@greywolf0x1 @adbenitez

“Hey guys, I want to leave WhatsApp, should I go to Telegram or Signal?"

-- you guys are NOT helping, that's still exactly the same problem. Just stay away from anything that isn't open source, decentralized, self-hostable, e2e encrypted (without rolling their own crypto). That basically leaves only Matrix or XMPP.