On the contrary, maps are (IMO) one domain where FOSS is genuinely better. OpenStreetMap data is far more detailed than any corporate map, and the available clients (Osmand in particular) are far more powerful.
You-know-who can only compete because of its (admittedly useful) data on businesses. And, alas, because of ignorance among normies, many of whom are still clueless that, for example, for hiking or outdoor wayfinding, there are much better alternatives available.
Email? The rest of your life will be spent wondering if anyone got your message or if you've missed something important.
Registrar, and search? Not possible.
Maps? Paper would be more practical.
Browser, done.
Git, a lot of extra work for no gain.
>Maps? Paper would be more practical.
On the contrary, maps are (IMO) one domain where FOSS is genuinely better. OpenStreetMap data is far more detailed than any corporate map, and the available clients (Osmand in particular) are far more powerful.
You-know-who can only compete because of its (admittedly useful) data on businesses. And, alas, because of ignorance among normies, many of whom are still clueless that, for example, for hiking or outdoor wayfinding, there are much better alternatives available.
We weren't talking FOSS, we were talking self-hosted, and self-hosting OSM is ridiculous, especially if you want to do routing.
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The map data is great but I guess I really mean navigation, which is... not great.
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> Git, a lot of extra work for no gain.
I guess it depends a bit on scale and additional feature requirements, but a remote git repo is pretty trivial to self-host, no?
I have my personal ones sitting on a standard vps, but they could be anywhere
I am a little optimistic about radicle for Git