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== What are some advantages over conventional Social Media? == | == What are some advantages over conventional Social Media? == | ||
What most people will tell you about the Fediverse is that it's free software, federated and free from adds, spying and so on. | |||
But what does that mean. | |||
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All of the software used in the Fediverse is Free Software. | All of the software used in the Fediverse is Free Software. | ||
Free | Free Software is software that follows the 4 freedoms defined by the FSF: | ||
* Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. | * Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. | ||
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* Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. | * Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. | ||
* Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. | * Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. | ||
If you yourself can't code, so you can't study, change and distribute a program, you still have some advantages. You can trust the program, because other people studied the code to make sure it does (only) what it's supposed to do. You can request a feature to the developers and if the community deems that feature a good idea it will often be adopted. | |||
=== No spying, no ads, no algorithm, no shadowbanning, ... === | === No spying, no ads, no algorithm, no shadowbanning, ... === | ||