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  • I cannot find any resources other than: OsmAnd is GPLv2, the API is MIT. I cannot find anything about the plugins, but that would only mean that the plugins are a mix of open and closed source, though the app itself is still open source.

    standing to their documentation they have an exception to the GPLv2 for the Google Play app to be able (my guess here) to better process payments and such.

    So to my admittedly poor understanding:

    OsmAnd -> open source
    OsmAnd on Google Play -> closed source but compiled from the FOSS code
    Plugins -> YMMV depending on the plugin

    Yet because OsmAnd and it’s API itself are FOSS I would argue that this is still the right community for the OP question. :)




  • True but since then Israel has done nigh to nothing to stop the creation of kibbutz in Palestine, and the occupation of land both in Gaza and in the West Bank, and Hamas has grown to pretty much erase any other political faction in Palestine. The PLO shrunk out of any international relevance since the death of Arafat and Israel is actually governed by the far-right. Alas! Everything went very wrong since the 90s.

    Now, I am in no way expert in the subtleties of the political situation in Israel and Palestine, but it seems that the peace process in that region will always be doomed to fail.





  • I had a kindle and now I have a Kobo, I still read oj my phone if I get stuck somewhere and I don’t have my e-reader with me, but e-readers are so much better. Less eye strain, less distractions from notifications or random thoughts. IMO if you read more than a book a year you probably should have an e-reader. Just my 2 cents.








  • To be honest, the minimum you really need for a colourful website is just HTML and a dash of inline CSS, especially if you want to recreate that nostalgic early internet type of feeling. JavaScript is very much optional.

    In my opinion you should start easy, understand how it all clicks together, especially HTML and then start building, and eventually rebuilding, on top of it after you have grasped the basics. Most people gets scared by HTML, CSS and JavaScript because they are usually presented together as if you couldn’t use one without the others, but you most certainly can.

    Just my 2 cents.



  • It might but when you get to critical mass (as in big enough to create or attract big names and their following) you wil still be stuck with a huge amount of data. Keep also in mind that big influencers make money out of the platforms they are in so they would not have any incentive to move to the Fediverse unless someone finds a way to monetize it. At that point you have the Meta Threads controversy.

    To be perfectly honest an influencer, or a group of influencers, could run their own instance and charge a subscription to follow it or run ads but most people will join a free instance to see the same content; if they defederate to force users to join their instance then they are way less discoverable; if they run ads other admins would defederate for privacy (e.g. Meta Threads); etc.

    In short, yes is feasible and someone will do it, on the other side it will need a creative approach to monetization to attract big names and build a consistent user base/fund raising strategy to justify the cost of the infrastructure especially if federated. I hope it will happen, though I am not bright enough to see how.

    My major concern with the success of the Fediverse is that socials like Reddit are replaceable if you have enough people to create a stimulating community, socials like TikTok, Instagram and Twitter rely on having people you want to follow in their platform to lure you in and they are much more difficult to replace.