Hello all, fellow convert this year. My entire household is on one distro or another. Spreading the gospel to family and friends of course.

This is the real answer. Community.

Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

Sounds like woefully ignorant cope. They’re a terrorist death cult.

The rest is arguably correct, establishment Dems serve their donors more than their constituents. I don’t necessarily blame someone for seeing legislation he supported shot down by the establishment and then switching sides. It’s a baby-brain move, but that’s what most uneducated Americans do unfortunately.

Case in point, in terms of privacy, the Dems Project 2029 is out and their first policy…is Digital ID and age verification. Which is effectively lifted from Project 2025. KOSA has bipartisan support. Probably because Meta and others are dumping tons into lobbying both sides but 🤷‍♂️

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/democrats-pick-up-the-global-digital-id-agenda-in-project-2029

I’d rank the Mullvad founder bankrolling a far right party, who is now saying they have enough funding to put up candidates, and who literally say they will walk over corpses to ethnically cleanse Sweden, a bit higher on the scale.

https://lemmy.zip/comment/27455991

I was just setting up my homelab 👀 looks like I was just in time to give it a bit before rebuilding lol

It doesn’t exist yet 😅 as I said, still learning and trying to avoid using AI as a lot of vibe coded discord clones popped up. I did compile a list (which probably needs updating)

https://github.com/DukePantarei/discord-alternatives-wishlist

You’re right. And that’s why more of us need to contribute and spread the word of projects to support them.

Honestly, FOSS is our last bastion against this consumerist hellscape. I’m working on learning to build my own discord-like front end on matrix specifically for gaming. But I’m just one guy. We’ve all gotta pick where we place our effort and support those around us similarly.

Vaultwarden taking over bitwarden, should they shut doen as open source, I think would be entirely worthy. But it might need more people to either help vaultwarden or maintain it on their own, you’re right.

To me, seeing and learning about all of these projects gives me hope. All of these people and communities working to build things out of passion and dedication, because they care and want to provide value to others. No profit motive necessary. We just need to be there to support them as we’ve tied capital to our survival currently.

Has Vaultwarden said anything yet? I imagine that, if necessary, given that bitwarden’s client is still open, at the point they choose to try and close it, we, the users, can fork it and establish it for vaultwarden, correct? Or, maybe even the vaultwarden team will think about forking it themselves and making a light client as well to pair with the current server.

But Vaultwarden can exist without “leeching” they just haven’t needed to yet. That’s more symbiotic than parasitic. The parasite class just took over Bitwarden after all.