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 == 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.
-Free Sofware is software that follows the 4 freedoms defined by the FSF:
+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.
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 * 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.
+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, ... ===