Proprietary software = software thats not open source

yes its still followed

yes its still relevant

if the software is closed source then you dont know if it respects your privacy or not, and 99% of the time it doesnt

fwiw, besides the "Proton's Free plan now offers up to [...] after completing certain tasks." post earlier, i also just deleted some adverinfonewstainment tutanota spam blogpost ("Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal") from this community.

tutanota is just like protonmail except there is more evidence indicating that they are primarily a honeypot for privacy-seeking rubes (as opposed to protonmail where it is maybe only obvious to people knowledgeable about the history of the privacy industry).

People should be skeptical of anyone selling a service involving cryptography software which has nearly no conceivable purpose except for to protect against the entity delivering the software. Especially if they re-deliver the software to you every time you use it, via a practically-impossible-to-audit channel, and require you to identify yourself before re-receiving it (as almost any browser-based e2ee software which doesn't require installing any software does, due to the current web architecture).

If you think this kind of perfect-for-targeted-exploitation architecture isn't regularly used for targeted exploitation... well, you're mistaken. In the web context specifically, it has been happening since the 90s.

imo this community should not tolerate advertising (or other posts who's purpose is to encourage using/purchasing) this type of deceptively-marketed service.

How about we also avoid "source available" software as well

yes, it still is enforced.

And sometimes the mods are really overzealous enforcing it. Or at least they were on Reddit.

example: i said that i liked the Layout of Outlook and my Comment got removed because that was endorcement of closed-source Software to them. on a Post where i asked which Programs i could use to replace Outlook

so: yes and yes.

P.S: I'm still grateful to them for moderating this community for me. No bad feelings, love you guy <3

Software freedom is about what you, the user, run on your own hardware. Different concerns apply to server software. The client side is what matters as that's what you run on your hardware, but if the server side is free as well then you are not tied to the service provider and can use a different service provider or run your own instance.

With server software, the main concern is "Service as a Software Substitute" - doing your computing on "cloud" (someone else's computer). See Who does that server really serve?.

cc @TheAnonymooseJoker@lemmy.ml