Ah, true. I didn’t know about Grayjay, though. It doesn’t seem to mention this on their website or GitLab, but I can see that the license is proprietary. Ok, their license does use the words “open source”. You are not even allowed to edit the code! Crazy and a huge shame for something coming from people in the right to repair movement. Software freedom should be one of their goals. But I guess they think you should be able to control hardware, but not software.

Thought so! I guess people just assume that whenever they see something on GitHub.

For instance, why is this community modded by me? You would of though that they would of monitored the state of Reddit and jumped on board Lemmy. Its things like these that show that the fsf is blind.

First of all, thanks for doing this. Some months ago when I searched for a community like this, I couldn’t find anything. I’m not sure that the FSF can do much more, though.

Richard Stallman still travels the world to give talks about Free Software in multiple languages. They have a conference called Libre Planet. I wish there were more of Richard’s talks on YouTube, but other than that I don’t know what else they could do that would matter.

It’s just very hard to reach people with such a complicated message. I think that’s why a lot more people have heard of the term Open Source than Free Software. Even on Lemmy most discussions are about “Open Source” and “Linux”. When I commented on some proprietary app being made for Lemmy saying that it was unethical, people downvoted me. They don’t understand when I say that users deserve rights and they think Free Software just means you want to get something for free (I don’t think it even has anything to do with the word “free”, btw - they often think the same way about “Open Source”).

It’s a very complicated topic to explain to an average person, even to developers (many Free Software projects have a Discord server or use other proprietary software). We still should try whenever we can, but this should really be taught at schools. I doubt the FSF can suddenly become much better at this, no matter what they do. If you think there is a gap, we could try to fill it ourselves (and maybe we should), but we probably aren’t gonna build a big audience either.

Also, I just remembered there were some talks about promoting Free Software in last Libre Planet: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/questions-are-the-answer-how-to-have-deeper-conversations-with-anyone-about-free-software-philosophy/

We are judging lemmy.world admins based on their decisions and inaction is also some kind of a decision. Facebook is a threat and they’ve decided to not treat it seriously.