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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jurjendevries 9h \ parent \ on: NoAlt - Bigtech alternatives on Nostr nostr
Hi @deSign_r 👋 thanks for your compliment and feedback. I am curious what you mean by that its not open source. The site is using Drupal and its default template which is GNU license https://github.com/drupal/drupal/blob/11.x/core/LICENSE.txt and the content is public domain except some icons by the apps themselves. How do you like to see it improved? Personally I would like to see it fully on the Nostr protocol in the future, but with a static bridge to have it indexed in search engines for normies.
Related to maintaining, Nomishka and I try to have a balance between most used big tech apps and somehow curated alternatives based on Nostr. As most is in place, we only have to update it once in a couple of months or so. Anyhow feel free to do suggestions here or by Nostr. 🙏
Using Drupal open-source code does not make this tool open-source itself.
Why? Mostly because
- Code powering the website is not available for fork/review/contributions.
- People cannot submit new apps or edit existing ones.
The easier option would be to add a form for people to submit new apps or edit existings ones.
Even so, using such powerful dinosaur for such simple project does not feel appropriate to me. A simple jekyll static website (or similar) hosted on git would do much better and easy for others to maintain as it uses markdown, a formatting language that is intuitive and easy to learn. You could actually deploy in some blossomservers.com for hosting the website and use gittr.space as a code repository.
Don't get me wrong, I truly appreciate such projects. The issue is that typically we use what we aim to deliver what we can, and is not enough for it to make it successful and useful for the masses. Allow others to contribute.
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