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by k310 317 days ago
How many more people must go through the agony of software enshittification before free and open source software is more widely adopted and better supported?

I started making a list of FOSS Trello alternatives. If none suit your needs, contribute dollars or code to one.

All other good reasons aside, FOSS is the only way to get what you want outside of building your own, but public repos give you economy of scale plus the ability to make your bespoke mods.

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Honestly it feels like desktop software should make a comeback.

You pay once, get a set of features and that’s it. It won’t randomly change on you one day.

Open source doesn’t solve anything for most people. It adds work if they have to figure out how to run it, etc.

On the server side, you have things like Moodle, which has one instance per X number of users, only a browser needed. And there are many others. If you outsource the hosting, you still have choice, unlike a closed package, where you don't.