Good. Less infrastructure for the project maintainers to ... • Aaron Parecki

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Michael Downey 🚩 https://floss.social/@downey • Dec 10
Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense. 🤦‍♂️
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy
https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/we-are-moving-to-github-discussions/4010

Good. Less infrastructure for the project maintainers to maintain means more time to spend on the actual product. Running a Discourse instance isn't free, both in money and time.

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Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:00am -08:00

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Michael Downey 🚩 floss.social/@downey
  
  @aaronpk Wrong: The Discourse project offers free hosting to maintainers and has for many years: https://free.discourse.group/
  Shilling for Microsoft is pretty far afield from the #IndieWeb ....
  
  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:44pm +00:00

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