As lemmy is a Foss and privacy respecting platform built on that ethics and morals it is only right the clients following those morals should be the most promoted and used. In the past you may have needed proprietry apps or tools but the need is no more as more foss apps and tools that can cater to everyones taste for all platforms are available now ( see the megathread ) there is no need to use proprietry apps which are privacy nightmares and tracks, pushes ads. etc and also if a proprietry app dev decides to collect data there is no wayto know or if they close development the app is gone but with foss someone will fork it . In the past this sub has allowed posts about proprietry apps and tools those posts will stay as it is and you can interact with it but posting any new one will lead to warning and then ban this decision was made as a community by conducting a poll.
- Read the community info/sidebar to understand how this community works, what’s it for, rules etc.
It is not for any gains as i am not a dev or built any foss apps . I am just trying to help and motivate people to use better apps and tools. And it was 71- 65 when i wrapped the thread i think people from this thread ia contributing now.
See it from the community perspective.
I am pretty tolerant towards non FOSS clients for Lemmy. Sync and Boost allowed a lot of people to join Lemmy, and they still use those apps everyday.
I follow and sometimes contribute to the community because I think it’s nice to have a central place to see the latest updates, FOSS or not. The community wasn’t actively moderated, but people didn’t care because the topic is pretty much conflict free
Then someone like you or another person jumps in and pushes for only FOSS to be allowed, while a post from a week ago about a Boost update has 34 upvotes and 4 downvotes.
We all want Lemmy to succeed, but we also have to accept opinions of other people in how to do so and manage this kind of cross-Lemmy communities
Link and sync aldready has their own big ass community i don’t they are gonna miss this one .
Based in your poll, there is no clear agreement from the community on this.
There isn’t but that is also what happened when i announced i am not gonna change it to foss only hence the poll
The poll which is evenly split, so not really giving any reason to change the current status of this community, which accepts both FOSS and non FOSS