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A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
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Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
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I want to move away from Telegram/Discord, what's a good libre replacement? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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I'm in a tailscale network with everyone I want to chat with if that changes anything.

Must be/have:

Easy to roll out, not much harder/more involved than setting up something like discord ideally.
Clients available on Windows and Android and Linux of course.
Decentralized/Peer to Peer. I don't want to set up a server computer but I will if I absolutely must. All devices behave as if they're on the same LAN thanks to tailscale if that helps.

Would be nice to have:

Groups and sub groups like discord.
Stickers like telegram.
Voice/Video chat. I would miss desktop streaming a bit but I could always fall back to Discord if I must.

Is there anything at all like that? There are so many options it's kind of overwhelming.

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[–] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

p2p ... poses many problems not found in the standard client-server model (open ports, nat, global discovery).

Tailscale breaks through that pretty well. It really does "just work" It is centralized but to the absolute minimum required to break through the barriers between you, creating as direct of a physical connection as possible. I'm hoping one day soon something like it will come standard. I'm surprised there isn't an easy way to run matrix, but p2p over LAN. Tailscale could easily do the rest, including encryption.

I agree whole heartedly about the corporate-friendly culture point. Particularly the abrasive culture of everything related to Gnome, yuck.