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I remain hopeful that projects like this are a way for commercial interests to funnel money and development to the upstream open source project owners. Purism t
by farisjarrah 7y ago
I remain hopeful that projects like this are a way for commercial interests to funnel money and development to the upstream open source project owners. Purism talks a big game about being a social purpose company. Lets see if they can follow through with their self-imposed commitments. Thus far, it does seem like some the greater mobile gtk toolchain has benefited as result of these efforts on the librem phone, but that's a pretty small niche right there. It doesn't seem like they are integrating with the upstream projects as much for these social/communication services as much as they are with their mobile stuff.
- kgwxd 7y agoI think the reason they're not integrating upstream on the social stuff as much is because they've removed more than added. They do less, on purpose. I like that their Mastodon instance doesn't have the firehose. It seems to help keep peoples posts more diverse and personal and avoids people feeling like they have to pick a side and comment on whatever is #trending today. If they gave the option to turn on the firehose, it would loose that feel because many of the users would fall into the same trap. Even if they still post interesting stuff, their overall feed could be lower quality.