@solarpunkpresents@climatejustice.social
2026-06-05 13:31 UTC
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@mhd@tilde.zone 2026-06-05 14:11
@solarpunkpresents@climatejustice.social Yup, if associating with bad actors is a no-no, you're out of luck with mastodon.social and a lot of other instances. Mastodon itself has a backend written in Ruby on Rails, which is lead by, well, just google "DHH" is all I'm saying. The react library for allegedly making browser development easier was created by Meta/Facebook. It uses the Typescript compiler by Microsoft. And the "vite" infrastructure now owned by Cloudflare. (It's very likely that you'll interact with one of those on almost any web page you visit, though…) You probably can avoid that by going for an instance that uses a different server, and use a different client, but there might be some research involved.
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@13reak@infosec.exchange 2026-07-01 19:56
@solarpunkpresents@climatejustice.social A lot of big corporations created software or libraries that are (now) open source and widely used. E.g. libraries originally from Google are in (nearly?) any browser. Some projects are nowadays even maintained by entirely different people than the original big corporation. I think anything open source and well-established/widely used is absolutely fine to use. Also the community is maintaining these projects and if a corporation is misbehaving, the repo is forked quickly and maintained by others.