• Plswrk@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You must be new if you’re surprised lemmy is mostly privacy and security conscious folk who prefer foss.

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      1 year ago

      Valuing privacy, security, and FOSS doesn’t have to mean unwilling to pay for quality software though.

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        1 year ago

        It does mean unwilling to pay for closed source software.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, I trust the business model where their reputation depends on keeping my data private an order of magnitudes more than the business model that is literally selling it.

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          1 year ago

          If that’s your mentality it shouldn’t matter whether the software is paid or free as in beer. I’m generally in that group, but I’m pretty pragmatic about using some closed source software when it’s non-critical to my life…

          A Lemmy app where tons of alternative clients exist and everyone I’m doing is more or less public anyways… Yeah that doesn’t need to be free software.