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What’s Richard Stallman’s dream social network? XMPP! (simplifiedprivacy.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Richard Stallman had a dream where you control your computing. And XMPP is the closest social network in line with Richard Stallman’s vision of the internet. This instant message protocol, allows for you to easily host your own server, it’s fast and efficient, and has lots of different open source clients to choose from. Additionally, by making it extensible, it allows for anyone to build upon it to get their own desired features. This article goes over some of the basics of XMPP: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/xmpp-decentralized-signal-get-your-own-social-network/

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

We dont need shitheads in open source. There are plenty of other minds out there without doing any "separate the art from the artist" non-sense talk.

FOSS doesn't need assholes like stallman and better people are doing the work now he started years ago.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

We kinda do need him, though. Very few people are as intensely principled as he is on the subject of computing freedom, and without him anchoring the Overton window, there's nothing stopping the Bill Gateses of this world from moving it.