#freelibreopensourcesoftware — Public Fediverse posts

It may be a pancake. It may neither have easy support for VR headsets nor guarantee you 60fps even if you get it to run through a VR headset. But it was there before all of you. It used the term #Metaverse many years before any one of you had even heard of it.



The #Hypergrid, the interconnection between #OpenSimulator grids, is 15 years old this year. And yes, #OpenSim is actually #decentralised like you wouldn't believe. Over 420 big and small public grids and over 8,000 privately-run, home-hosted grids based on #DreamGrid, over 95% of which are on the Hypergrid, say a lot, I guess.

Oh, and it needs no #blockchain, it needs no #cryptocurrency, and it needs no #NFTs. It runs on the same technology as #SecondLife (which celebrates its 20th birthday this year, as in it's still alive, too) while being fully #FreeLibreOpenSourceSoftware.

#Decentraland #OpenMetaverseAlliance #OMA #OpenMetaverse #Decentralized #Decentralization #Decentralised #Decentralisation #VirtualWorlds #Meme #ThatsCute

#Proprietary, #NonFree, #Commercial, #ClosedSource iPhone and (maybe) Android apps which secretly siphon all data they can and sell it to Google and Facebook without the user ever noticing, much less consenting to it.

This is particularly tempting on iOS where it's very difficult to offer #FreeLibreOpenSourceSoftware because the Apple App Store makes it almost impossible to comply with certain #FreeSoftware licenses, and other app sources are basically illegal AFAIK.

On Android, one could say that apps on the Google Play Store are either also available on F-Droid or closed-source spyware that secretly hands your private data over to Google and Facebook.