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[โ€“] jherazob@beehaw.org 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

For personal reference and for the lazy (i think it's complete, did it in a hurry in a break):

I note that a good portion of these are commercial products, frankly I'd trust MUCH more a FOSS product than a commercial one after so damn many over the years have betrayed us all in the search for profit, if you're gonna migrate to something you may as well go for the FOSS ones that are less in danger of enshittification (not a guarantee but far less of a chance since a fork kills all the walls around a walled garden pretty quickly), even if the FOSS product is not as polished.

[โ€“] undone@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Tana let's you only create an account if you log in through Google, Apple, Github, Microsoft.

No, thank you.

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Thanks. Agree that this push away from us services should be seen as an opportunity to expand foss alternatives as well

[โ€“] rice@lemmy.org 4 points 2 days ago

pretty sure "Nextcloud GmbH" is located in Germany (assuming the gmbh is real) and within nextcloud it has a replacement for all of those. Though nextcloud is pretty slow and clunky to run, it does work and does replace all of those by itself. (except email, run your own mailcow)

[โ€“] WuceBrillis@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is FOSS? When i try to look it up, it just shows me some local companys website.

[โ€“] RedSnt@feddit.dk 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

FOSS is either "Free and Open Source Software" or a Danish company that makes valves and termostats and stuff like that hehe
EDIT: Wait no, that's Danfoss I was thinking of, but FOSS is still a Danish company except it provides "high-tech analytical solutions", whatever that means. Idk what's the deal with "foss" names and Denmark, it doesn't sound very Danish to me (as a Dane).

[โ€“] WuceBrillis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I'm Danish, so when i tried searching for it, it only wanted to show me the company lol.

[โ€“] bent@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Foss means waterfall in Norwegian from Norse fors. It doesn't see any use in modern Danish from what I know, but there might be a link there considering that Danfoss works in fluid control equipment, pump, seal, valve manufacturing, climate & energy

[โ€“] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 1 hour ago

True, it's very rarely used in Danish any more. We do however say "det fosser ud/ind" regarding money/water/gas, so it is used in those specific cases. But I don't think I've ever heard it elsewhere.