Post #3777893

2026-07-13 03:11 UTC

A curious irony in the fact a great many of the free and open source platforms championing digital sovereignty are themselves utterly infrastructurally dependent on big tech apparatus GitHub, itself owned (and mined) by the ruthless and closed source market monopolist Microsoft. We're gaining ground fast, but we've still got a way to go in the truly sovereign platform space. To use is to support, and that means any point along the supply chain. #bigtech #floss #digitalsovereignty

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@utf_7@mastodon.social 2026-07-13 03:50

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social i dont think other platforms are safe from beeing scraped. since it is public available, scrapers can do scraping stuff.

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@VioletPumpkin@mastodon.social 2026-07-13 05:36

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social a good reason to move to Codeberg.

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@diemkay@hachyderm.io 2026-07-13 05:56

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social most of them are too young to remember Microsoft’s explicit strategy to first suffocate open source as it was a threat, and later pretend to embrace it because keeping your enemies even closer made sense to them. Now with the added benefit of automatically having your work stolen and added to their tools. As with most, they traded principles for convenience. Or never had principles to begin with. PR agencies have worked hard to erase this over the years as well as rehabilitate Gates’ image into this nerd grandpa who reads books and cares about world issues.

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