Re: Privacy Respecting Replacement for facebook groups

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

Em 01/10/2020 11:15, Marinus Savoritias escreveu:
> Please read about Matrix before spreading misinformation. And stop
> adding words to my mouth about Element and stuff.

As a member of the free software evaluation project team from the Free
Software Directory[1], I can say that at least Riot and Element
*standalone* versions were found to be non-free software, despite their
license[2][3]. As of June 19th, 2020‎[4], this no longer affects
Riot-web[5][6].

Since the Free Software Directory Backlog project team[7] feared search
engine optimization (SEO) abuse as result of the possible marketing
strategy of the name change, the FSD has prevented indexing of some
pages related to the name.

As a side note, the choice of which free/libre software digital instant
messaging to *foster to the general public* is now a very delicate
subject, particularly due to the failure of integration of new entrants
(digital instant messaging self-proclaimed “standards”) with long
standing officially registered standards, such as XMPP and its official
extensions (XEPs). I have made some preliminary study on this subject,
although fostering XMPP[8].

In the field of digital social networks with no real-time presence, the
free/libre software community is doing well on embracing the ActivityPub
standard, despite the recent drop of support for OStatus due to dormancy
as draft[9] and some alleged lack of security[10], which unfortunately
led to many ActivityPub implementations dropping all connections to GNU
Social, this one which does have a task open for ActivityPub
implementation[11].


# References


[1]:
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_evaluation
.

[2]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Riot.im , redirected from
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Element .

[3]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Review:Riot.im-REV-ID-1 , as
referenced in the talk/discussion page of [2].

[4]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Review:Riot.im-REV-ID-1#riot-web .

[5]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/81551 .

[6]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Riot-web .

[7]:
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Backlog_Admin_Group .

[8]: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/XMPP .

[9]:
https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/images/9/93/OStatus_1.0_Draft_2.pdf
.

[10]: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/10740 .

[11]: https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/-/issues/256 .


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