I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[–] sith@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Totally agree. The majority of Americans are great people. Not everyone is MAGA. We need to support the good ones. Sanctions and boycotts tend to unite.

One exception would be if the project imposse a security risk because key people and servers, within the US, may be blackmailed or pushed by the new administration. We're not there yet though. And I hope these projects and people migrate if this becomes the case.

Also, FOSS projects run by big tech are probably also wise to avoid for strategic reasons.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The majority of Americans are great people

They're not the majority if they can't win an election — just sayin'.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

a minority of the population voted for trump though, it's not like 50+% of the total population voted for him, it's 50+% of the voters, a lot of people just didn't vote.

[–] Grippler 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

a lot of people just didn't vote.

So they decided that it was just fine if he won and saw no reason to oppose what he stands for...

Yeah, that's some good people right there I can see that /s

[–] bramkaandorp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Voter ID, gerrymandering, not allowing absentee voting, no day off.

Not everyone was able to vote, and that disproportionately affected Democratic voters.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

All true. But the world also watched a huge amount of voters rejects dems over gaza. While trump had no better plans on gaxa.

Much like Ukraine his only argument is "i am better and every one else was stupid"

The argument often heard. "Voting the lesser of 2 evils is still voting evil".

So yes these folks very much voted the greater of 2 evils by refusing to vote the lesser option. And much of the rest of the world is rightfully sorta pissed at the evil they allowed in.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Maybe a system that regularly gives us "evil vs lesser evil but still evil" as our only options isn't worth saving

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 1 points 3 hours ago

"Great people on both sides," as a very stable genius put it 🙄

Either way, this is probably OT for an open source thread...

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, a minority of people voted for Hitler, too.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 5 hours ago

Fair enough. I'm still smarting from that election result, all the way across the pond.

On the other side, I don't count people as "great" who can't be bothered voting against bigoted authoritarianism. But different strokes, I'm sure.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

if its run by a big company then it's just open source and not free, or do you mean something like a company contributing to the code?