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1. Ana DaLerd (adalanerd@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 04:27:46 JST Ana DaLerd

   • Aral Balkan
   • Delta Chat

   Omg #deltachat received a VC funding offer and the team is seriously considering to accept it ?!

   Wtf @delta ? Are you out of your mind ?

   Cc @aral

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 04:27:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     @adalanerd @delta I mean, yeah, sure, accept it if you want to destroy all your credibility in a single move.

     🤷♂️

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 04:29:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     @adalanerd PS. Do you have a source/link?

     @delta

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 04:35:38 JST Aral Balkan

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     @compl4xx @adalanerd @delta Yeah, if the folks handing out (our) public funds had any sense, organisations that get them would not be able to then take VC so that what is built using them can then be enclosed. But clearly @NLNet, etc., aren’t thinking that far. So we fund things from the commons and if they fail, we shoulder the cost but if they succeed, then private capital takes the rewards and encloses it. Not great is it?

     I guess I can take this response as confirmation, then?

   • Nami (compl4xx@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 04:35:39 JST Nami

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     @aral @adalanerd @delta funding open source projects is hard - no one knows that better than we do. See this #ownCloud blog post years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20190404094655/https://owncloud.org/news/open-source-contribute-noncommercial/

     Element received millions of VC funding, and is happily recommended all the time.
     https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 06:21:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     @compl4xx FFS :)

     @adalanerd @delta

   • Nami (compl4xx@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 06:21:35 JST Nami

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     @aral not on this date, no xD @adalanerd and I pranked you a bit :P

     @delta

   • Delta Chat (delta@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 06:22:25 JST Delta Chat

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     @IzzyOnDroid @aral @adalanerd https://chaos.social/@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu Izzy you detected this 🎯 and sorry dear Aral if the joky rumor understandably upset you. Please inspect https://delta.chat/en/help#how-are-delta-chat-developments-funded for our funding stance .... FWIW we share fundamental skepticisms regarding VC funding, actually, but also it's a question if licensing can effectively prevent enclosure .... peace! :)

   • IzzyOnDroid ✅ (izzyondroid@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 06:22:26 JST IzzyOnDroid ✅

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     @aral @adalanerd "Remember, remember // The days of…" Oof, is there any hope it might be due to the date? I mean, what is an April fool's joke without fools? I had my own "foolish moment" already today when Libera announced switching to Discord (to my defense, I didn't have my second coffee-of-the-day yet then which I immediately went for thereafter). @delta taking VC could definitely be something like that 🙈 So: 🙏 it's just that…

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 06:25:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     @delta In a world with organisations like Mozilla that say they are one thing and are another, it was, sadly, all too believable.

     Still, I’d much rather be fooled than for it to be true.

     @IzzyOnDroid @adalanerd

   • busta kitten (iguanadelmar@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 14:59:16 JST busta kitten

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     • IzzyOnDroid ✅
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     @aral @delta @IzzyOnDroid @adalanerd is mozilla shady?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 14:59:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Iguanadelmar

     See:

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/106487970138249042

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107784121385515575

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107789638635259139

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/108424303918199091

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110067573456013533

     https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

     etc.

     @delta @IzzyOnDroid @adalanerd

     #mozilla #google #PR #whitewashing #SiliconValley #BigTech

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 15:01:15 JST Aral Balkan

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     @compl4xx It’s ok, I’d much rather be fooled (and for it to result in a conversation on this topic) than for it to be true :)

     @adalanerd @delta

   • Nami (compl4xx@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 15:01:16 JST Nami

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     @aral @adalanerd @delta sorrrryyyyy

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 16:06:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Iguanadelmar No, they just allow Google to track people by default in exchange for ~ half a billion dollars a year.

     LibreWolf is a private-by default fork: https://librewolf.net/

     @delta @IzzyOnDroid @adalanerd

   • busta kitten (iguanadelmar@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 16:06:34 JST busta kitten

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     @aral @delta @IzzyOnDroid @adalanerd so firefox mines your data and sells it to google? And librefox is a recommended alternative?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 16:31:49 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Iguanadelmar There are a number of settings. Off the top of my head: change default search engine to DuckDuckGo, turn off sharing data with Mozilla and “experiments” in privacy. Likely a few more you might have to tweak.

     @delta @IzzyOnDroid @adalanerd

   • busta kitten (iguanadelmar@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 16:31:50 JST busta kitten

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     @aral @delta @IzzyOnDroid @adalanerd is there an easy way to turn off the default tracking on firefox or would you recommend just switching to librefox? Appreciate your time & expertise, i think this will become more and more important as tracking no longer is only a question of ad dollars but becomes an issue of political repression as well..