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Summit

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Is Summit Open-Source? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 day ago by Yliaster@thelemmy.club to c/summit@lemmy.world
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I'm asking because I tried Sync but it's paid, has ads, trackers, mentions Google and Amazon in its privacy policy which was a big red flag for me.

Is Summit open source? Does it have trackers/collection data?

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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Does it have trackers/collection data?

I'm using Sentry for crash tracking. However you can opt out. Otherwise no trackers/data collection.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/idunnololz/summit

[–] juspie@piefed.ca -5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ironic, since GitHub is neither open source nor federated. Plus its Microsoft 🤢🤮

Hope the Summit maintainer will see the writing on the wall eventually...

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

While not optimal and something that should ideally be fixed, it's not really ironic.

It's like saying that it's ironic that an offline software needs to be downloaded from a website.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Biggest problem with sync is that it's abandoned