The Web We Want
I know this isn&#x27;t <i>quite</i> on topic, but this is not the web I want. I want open services to compete with the entrenched players of free-as-a-service, and I want more interop between these open services. I&#x27;m sure HN already gets the gist.<p>I run as de-Googlified a stack as I can: Nextcloud, DAVdroid, LineageOS, exclusively Linux, a private cloud server, etc. This is for my personal usage - at work, we run the whole Google&#x2F;Atlassian suite, and I&#x27;m (mostly) fine with that separation.<p>But I positively <i>pine</i> for the ease of use and general UX of the closed services when I go back to my private, open-source stack. A quick case in point: the Conversations Android XMPP client<p>I&#x27;m a Librem 5 backer, and I&#x27;m looking forward to the challenge of using it as a daily driver. So I&#x27;m looking to wean myself off WhatsApp in favour of something open. But Conversations isn&#x27;t it. It&#x27;s a <i>great</i> XMPP client, but it&#x27;s not something I will ever convince the majority of my friends and family to use. It&#x27;s couched in technical know-how, and while it&#x27;s a great app for an open source project, it still manages to feel subpar to the closed-source, back-doorable, privacy-draining consumer offerings. Signal seems the closest so far.<p>(I should add here that I am trying to do something about this: I contribute haphazardly to OSS I use and I evangelize it in my social circle, but it feels like an uphill battle)<p>More anecdata: I run self-hosted GitLab, Nextcloud, and Wallabag. Hopefully Mastadon and Pixelfed soon.<p>There is <i>no freaking way</i> to do SSO between all of these. Despite OAuth+OpenID being older than some of that software. Don&#x27;t get me started on the fact that the quickest way to get a file from phone &lt;-&gt; PC is to Slack it to myself from my work account.<p>The web I want will compete with closed-source ecosystems, instead of being a disparate collection of DIY server software that doesn&#x27;t talk to each other in the slightest.