People have strange and strong brand loyalty for proprietary things. It’s like a culture for them. I have seen it especially on iPhone and Whatsapp. Not only they refuse to use alternatives (Android; RCS/Signal/XMPP etc.). They will think you are a loser if you don’t use them. Or, even worse, will try to convince you to use them and that those are the best and anything else is a shit. I believe it’s the same for social media. So good luck!
Minetest/Luanti is twice free (as speech and beer). Minecraft is neither. So it’s better.
In 2027, Motorola will realease a phone with GrapheneOS preinstalled. So no Google phone.
Reddit is proprietary and centralized. Lemmy is free and federated. That’s why I love Lemmy.
I primarily use Ecosia because it plants trees. I also use Mojeek, it’s indipendent.
Open Source or Free > Source available > Closed source. Okay, I am glad that you allow me to see the program that I use. But if you don’t allow me to edit it to my needs or preferences, I won’t use your product.
Using non-free (proprietary) software and believing we are free to do anything we want with the software. But we can do only what the app (the devs) let us to do. We can’t see or edit the code of program to run as we wish.
Of course. Mac OS users will tell that you are so poor/stingy to buy an Apple computer, and Windows users to buy a Windows license. I left Windows, Reddit, X and Whatsapp 3 years ago. Switched to GNU/Linux, Lemmy, Mastodon and Signal/XMPP/SimpleX/DeltaChat. Best tech decisions I made. I hope more people will join Free/Federated technology. :-)