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> Do you personally feel more safe, or better, whatever the adjective you want to use would be... about logging in to a remote server that uses software you can read the source for versus software you can't read the source for?

Ah, sorry, I see where the confusion is. This is a different issue entirely:

  https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
Source code wise, the problem is non-free JavaScript served to the client:

  https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
It's desirable for the program running on the server to be Free so that I could run my own (if I chose to do so), and therefore be in control of my own computing. For example, I run my own GNU Social instance.


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