10 points

Lately? Firefox…

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It’s Mozilla that’s slowly enshittifying, Firefox itself is theoretically insulated from the worst decisions they could make, but those safeguards are going to be put to the test real soon I bet.

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Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren’t just “Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit”?

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It’s not thaaaat different but my favorite browser is floorp and stuff like vertical tabs, workspaces, split view

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3 points

They seem so directionless lately, and by god is AI the wrong horse to bet on for their users.

I should check out LibreWolf…

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70 points

Audacity was the first one I thought of.

Or MultiMC, PolyMC, the Sodium mod, or the original Minecraft Forge.

(Minecraft community devs need to stop having drama lmao)

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I love how well the PolyMC -> PrismLauncher transition went. It’s great that the asshole owning it didn’t just spew transphobic hate, but also removed the contribution rights to all other people, leading them to immediately flock to an alternative.

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34 points

Wait, what happened to Audacity?

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I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

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4 points

Wasnt it something about data collection?

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8 points

It was opt-out telemetry IIRC

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3 points

I remember reading an update which said that the company went back on most (or all?) the negative changes and it’s ok to use again.

I didn’t confirm it myself, but that’s part of why the alternatives aren’t seeing as much development now

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7 points

Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns

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I actually had to look it up as I couldn’t remember why I made the first switch. PolyMC was forked from MultiMC after they dropped third-party modpack support. Then there was some drama with one of the devs of PolyMC, spawning Prism Launcher

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I really don’t understand why PolyMC forked… Multi MC still has several third party mod packs available

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6 points

What happened to the Sodium mod?

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The lead developer changed the license to a much less permissive one because of drama surrounding being credited in modpacks. The dev thinks there are forks that exist solely to sidestep crediting the original mod, I’m not up to date enough on Minecraft modding lore to know if this is true or not.

I’m pretty sure there’s also a fork that branches off of the last GPL commit but I forget what it’s called.

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Doesn’t GPL technically require you to attribute the upstream anyway?

The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.

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Lol, I mean it’s better to have a brief period of drama than permanently put up with the bad management. Although Sodium is an exception to that, I think the people working on it are the right people.

I’m conflicted on the license change, though. I don’t know if it makes sense or not.

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That’s definitely true but at the same time why do people have to cause fights in the first place, they’re all part of a community for a game they enjoy playing :(

I also agree with you on the sodium license change, it’s definitely the most reasonable of the ones I listed since the dev seemed to be getting maintainer burn-out and had some bad experiences with other people in the MC modding community. I don’t really like the idea of it not being OSS though because the key strength of that is not being tied to a single maintainer or group.

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2 points

what happened with the original Minecraft Forge?

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8 points

Emby

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why?

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Here’s a comment about it I made a few weeks back in the context of why Jellyfin came to be and why I only ever recommend Plex or Jellyfin

This is going to go back quite a ways, and much of my knowledge is old at this point so some details might be off.

~15 years ago Plex as we know it started out as an OSX fork of the 0G Xbox homebrew software XBMC (Later renamed Kodi (For those who don’t know, XBMC was XBox Media Center and would turn the 0g Xbox into the cheapest Home Theater PC you could get at the time, man those were the days lol))

Plex was only briefly open source and then was quickly closed when they incorporated a year or so after they had something functional. They never made any promises about not charging or being open source or anything, so that’s why I’m generally fine with Plex

Sometime around 2012ish Emby came along as THE open source alternative to Plex and things were good. MOST of it was supposed to stay open source as was promised. From the beginning they kept build scripts n such closed source, probably should have caught on them, but heh ya know hindsight and all that.

Then around 2014/5 they took it all closed source, relicensed it and introduced their paywall including locking away already existing features. This is what pissed me and many others off and this is when and why Jellyfin split off promising to be truly fully open source forever. (There was a ton of drama about it at the time, but it looks like Embys Q&A thing a bit back doesn’t even bother to mention it, imagine that lol)

I don’t have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself, but the way they went about it…yea. fuck em

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thanks for clarification :)

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Jellyfin ftw

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Gitea, took control away from community and gave it to a for profit organization. Forgejo was born

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It has been on my list to figure out how to move to forgejo, need to do it soon before the migration process breaks or gets awful.

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If you’re using docker: change your image name from gitea to forgejo. Repull. Done. Baremetal should be just as simple. Migrations are as easy as leaving all the data in-place and changing the binary at this moment in time.

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The project already started to diverge. If you have an older version don’t update until you migrate.

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51 points

Simple Mobile Tools -> Fossify Tools

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