@tired_n_bored, most secure if a FOSS is selfhosted, but only if you have and use an own server, for a lot of user because of this, it isn't an option when they don't have the needed trust to a third party server.
Anyway, it's very important, something nobody does, except me, to read the PP and TOS of a product, there are often bad surprises, independent if it's FOSS or not.
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@tired_n_bored, I also prefer FOSS, but as I say, it's very important to control which, it's risky to use FOSS if it's outdated, unatended and lacks an active community. In this case I prefer an alternative of a small startup, even if it isn't FOSS. F.Exampl one of my favorite is this one, a hobby project of 2 electricians
https://www.ssuitesoft.com/categories/webapps.htm
Avoiding only proprietary soft of big corporations which create incomming with surveillance advertising, profiling the user to sell this data.
@tired_n_bored @Stuka, the bad thing of FOSS is when it don't have a great community and an active developement, then it's also open for hackers. A normal user can't check if a somewhat bigger app has a dangerous script or an security hole, even if he has the source code. Nobody check it, not even devs, except if they want to fork it, less users which are convinced that it's synonym of security and privacy, it isn't, it's not the sense and proposit of FOSS.
Expl of a FOSS
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/60a309e91ba1039c3527053867e0e210ff2e18628a01acc264d82430e6436889/detection
@GottaChangeMyName @interolivary, a show of consideration for people with visual impairments in Mastodon, so they can also smile using an TTS app.
@lord_ryvan @BonesOfTheMoon, I don't understand how it can be in the 21st century that a system as idiotic and archaic as the imperial one continues to be used. NASA has already caused millions of dollars in damage by crashing several probes due to miscalculations with these outdated and devoid of any logic measurements, based on parts of the body of a king, dead centuries ago instead of clear physical and mathematical units as in the rest of the world.
@Duke_Nukem_1990 @BeigeAgenda, correct, the key is the sovereignty of the people, not that of a single person or a small elite, this would reduce the communist system to a mere fascist dictatorship just as rotten as capitalism called democracy and where banks and multinationals dictate the rules, thereby it is not a democracy.
@stebo02 @worfamerryman, not only for privacy, its also to bypass country restrictions, eg, try to watch a movie or serie in the German publicTV in their official Homepage, from other country, even of the EC. You can't without VPN.
@JoYo, not only, Lemmy right now