Re: Helping new contributors

[Jean Louis]

* Suushi via libreplanet-discuss <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> 
[2021-04-12 17:22]:
> > >> By doing this ourselves, as advocates of free software, we can
> > >> include links to why free software methologies are better, even if
> > >> we have to be a little flexible in what we use for support and
> > >> communication, Discourse my not be ideal, but would we rather people
> > >> used facebook or discord?
> > > 
> > > Of course not Facebook. It is very easy to establish XMPP chat, it can
> > > be on the website or by using various applications, it will work from
> > > any device. There are other free software communication packages.
> > > 
> > >> My support group is about respecting privacy /user freedom as much
> > >> as possible.
> > > 
> > > In that case how can you use Facebook as a tool? Do you know that FB
> > > data has been leaked for 522 millions?
> > 
> > I am saying i am not going to use facebook hence I want to use 
> > discourse, irc, etc,   My point is, that while discourse may not be 100 
> > percent free software  it s better than facebook.
> > > 
> > > https://hyperscope.link/3/6/8/5/8/Direct-download-of-533M-Facebook-users-phone-numbers-and-personal-data-have-been-leaked-online-36858.html

Discourse is according to information here, fully free software
licensed under GPL2: https://www.discourse.org/

> Are you kidding? Facebook is obviously evil, but discord is a nonfree
> spyware program that you pretty much *need* to install on your computer
> in order to utilize it's full functionality.

Discourse was mentioned, not Discord, which is proprietary.

> Why should we or anyone concede to the enemy and compromise our
> principles to use something awful like discord for the sake of
> short-term convenience?

That is right. Maybe original poster was meaning Discord, but wrote
Discourse, those are different software, one is free (Discourse) and
one is proprietary (Discord).

Jean

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