Is it possible to remove posts on Truth Social? I am a X account
owner,
and not in a target group of Truth Social (U.S. Citizens who vote
Trump).
Is self-correction based on new facts a value or a bad idea in
Mastodon?
Is it possible to bring a criticism of the platform Truth Social based
on the
fact that self-correction is not possible after publishing?
Best,
Ole Aamot
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 4:23 PM Abe Indoria <[1]indo...@aindoria.com>
wrote:
I'm going to ignore the points about Truth Social for a bit since
I do
not wish to get into a political spat (and have no love for
different
parties in general).
I understand the limits of free software. One problem I
identify is
that some people use free software not because they value
freedom,
but
simply because it is economical to do so.
Why is this a 'problem?'
People who exploit the "cheapness" do nothing to promote free
software and its
philosophy; they do not say: "This product is possible thanks
to the
free software packages X, Y, Z and many more. We are grateful
to
all
the develpers who worked on them while making this available to
the
public on gracious terms."
I'm sorry, but this is quite a weird take to me. I hope you're
able to
see it from my POV: Not everyone can afford expensive software.
People
aren't 'exploiting' free software (or -f-OSS in general) just
because
they use something that's free. Also I'm not sure if we should
confuse
free software with free *and* open source software.
Anecdotally, when I buy 'expensive' software (Such as Apple
<Insert
software> or in a recent case for me, Scrivener, or what have you
-
sometimes you don't have that much of a choice), does that mean I
automatically go "This great expensive product is possible thanks
to x,
y or z?" I don't. I don't even know who wrote that software. When
I see
and like a free software (or in most cases, a FOSS), I usually
check
out the dev's profile to see if they've written anything else,
but
that's pretty much it - aside from donations for software that I
use on
an everyday basis and so on. But as is, even if I (or other
developers
of such things) weren't getting donations, someone using your own
software instead of the x alternative is quite gratifying. *If* I
like
a piece of software greatly, I would obviously praise whoever
wrote it
and recommend it to other like minded people, but that goes for
both
free and proprietary software. But that doesn't mean I am going
to do
that for every free software, nor does it mean I do it regularly
-
everyday people often have other priorities.
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