4mo ago

France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

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Erik Jonker (@ErikJonker@mastodon.social)

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Open Source is cool and all, but nothing beats this illustration!
This is how all government digital services should be done. Built out in the open for everyone to use, collaborate, and benefit from.
No more enriching tech oligarchs only to have them inevitably enshitify, use our data to invade our privacy and run propaganda campaigns, at a higher cost to everyone than governments simply building or contributing to common projects directly.
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
it says it's a Notion alternative... Not a Google Docs alternative.
One Notion FOSS alternative I've been testing out is SiYuan.
- I like logseq a lot, though org mode is still the one in my heart
Call me an anarkiddy all you want but I don't think contributing to literal governmentware is a good idea
- Why? Would be better to have a code and software that belongs to us all and that a government is responsible for it.
- I mean fair, still better than US corporate tech lol which is going to do ANYTHING the US government wants.
I’m not complaining, but why create something from the ground up when they could be improving OnlyOffice or LibreOffice?
- It's a different thing. It's online like Google docs.
  
  asked this somewhere else, but does anyone know how it compares to Cryptpad which is also developed in France, open source, self hostable, collaborative, and end-to-end encrypted?
  
  So like OnlyOffice and LibreOffice Online?
  Edit: to clarify: both of these products can be self hosted. OnlyOffice’s main business model is to sell hosting services, their software is AGPL v3.

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