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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not open source -> I'm not going to use it

[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 day ago

It's also a for-profit company based in the USA if I'm not mistaken.

That rules out any kind of privacy and chances are they will start the enshittification process at some point, just like every other company offering a subscription service.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IIRC, they said something like “we intend to open source it, but because of licensing and other IP concerns, we need to be careful how we structure the codebase, so we’re waiting until active development levels off”.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 8 points 1 day ago

I see. I'll reconsider when that happens.