Thank you a lot, Michael, this is quite interesting and something that I
should investigate further.
Indeed the "friendly-challenge" package uses "friendly-pow", which is no
good: https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-challenge/issues/159
<https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-challenge/issues/159>
I still think that Minds can be of significant interest for the FSF and
the free software community at large.
> Never heard of minds
First, I should mention that I have absolutely no affiliation with them
beyond merely having an account on their website.
Minds is a social media platform based in the United States which has
rather liberal policies compared to mainstream platforms such as
Facebook or X.
As I mentioned above, it's free software (although, now we know,
encumbered by the FriendlyCaptcha proprietary component). It uses the
AGPL license.
It attempts at decentralizing, but its attempts are IMHO mostly
unsuccessful.
However, as a centralized platform, I think it aligns with the
principles of the free software community (including freedom of speech
and transparency, beyond just software freedom) more so than other
platforms, including also X, which the FSF currently uses.
I still think that Minds has some significant shortcomings, which we can
help it overcome.
This includes the CAPTCHA test, which can be replaced with a similar
fully-free one, the fact that it doesn't currently comply with the text
of the GDPR (which doesn't mean it's bad for privacy, but does mean it's
a problem in the EU).
In some ways it's better than the Mastodon ecosystem because most
Mastodon instances are small and unreliable and have rules that are
restrictive beyond necessary.
Il giorno mer 20 set 2023 alle ore 22:34 Michael McMahon
<michael@fsf.org <mailto:michael@fsf.org>> ha scritto:
Never heard of minds, but Friendly Captcha is deceivingly source
available [1]. This is not apparent when you look at their main
repository.
[1] https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-pow/issues/13
<https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-pow/issues/13>
A previous commit [2] is free and it might still work.
[2]
https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-pow/tree/01a1c9c4aa858d3517881347c3328b67575029a7
<https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-pow/tree/01a1c9c4aa858d3517881347c3328b67575029a7>
When I brought up this point, they deleted my comments.
Best,
Michael McMahon | Web Developer, Free Software Foundation
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On 9/19/23 23:43, Valentino Giudice wrote:
> Given the recent conversation about Truth Social, as well as
the fact
> that social media are a topic of interest for the FLOSS
community, does
> anyone here use Minds?
> The platform is free software, including server-side.
> For a CAPTCHA, they use Friendly Captcha, which seems free
client-side.
>
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