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Euro visions: Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple โ€“ and more (www.theguardian.com)
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A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical โ€“ and often distinctively European โ€“ alternatives

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[โ€“] XLE@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a funny mistake to make, but after looking around on their website, I have genuinely no idea what group to attribute the project to. There's no name in the privacy disclaimer. You can attribute it to the people that developed it, but that seems almost tautological... And perhaps, if they're privacy enthusiasts too, they'd rather not be named and attributed to a location.

If I wasn't aware of GitHub let alone its alternatives, I'd assume Codeberg was the group responsible for the project too. It's mentioned on every page footer, after all

[โ€“] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's really just indicative of the author being unfamiliar with open source projects and their general structure - which is fine.

LibreWolf (as far as I can see) has a fairly standard OSS team structure - project lead/admin, several major contributing coders, a few notable prior contributors, and of course dozens of contributors of small pull requests. They do explain on their homepage that they're "largely a community-driven project", so if I was a journo I'd just refer to them as the 'LibreWolf team'.