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This is a place to ask whether free open source software exists for a particular purpose. If it’s non-existent, specify your software requirements here so your dream can be well articulated for everyone to either laugh at or share the dream and give moral support for you to create it yourself. Or you might even to pitch the idea so well that a developer loves the idea enough to run off and build it for you.

No other community exists for this purpose but there are some loosely related ones. If existing software closely delivers what you need but is missing a feature, you might post a wishlist/feature request here or in !bugs@sopuli.xyz.

The FSF has a software directory that can help with finding software.

Loosely related decentralised communities generally for FOSS:

There is also foss@beehaw.org but I don’t recommend it because the mod is trigger happy with censorship. E.g. if you post about FOSS advocacy it will get removed as it does not relate to any particular FOSS application. There are also many more FOSS forums duplicated in centralised places which are not conducive to the digital rights spirit of free open source software, so they are omitted.

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🌱 To help ethical investors discover investments and collaborate (perhaps w/a fedi component), server+client s/w needed (slrpnk.net)

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Linked thread is the seed of the idea.

We need a tool that makes short work of ethical investors trying to find decent investments that align with their values.

Crowdsourcing the labor is be part of the answer. If I find myself aligned with person X, say Rutger Bregman or Noam Chomsky for example, in principle they could share their portfolio (or at least the portion of their portfolio they are proud of) and I could efficiently browse through and mirror the investments I agree with. Then do the same for the Dalai Lama, Richard Stallman, or whoever. Perhaps I could list people and orgs whose portfolios might be aligned with me and study the intersection of their common investments.

If @throwaway44056@lemmy.ml just focuses on muni bonds for cities with competent cycling infra, I would love to make use of his findings. If he is followed by others, it would inspire him to work harder on finding ethical investments because it would amplify his advocacy.

Consider as well how Netflix uses customer’s movie scores to make recommendations. A mechanism like that could also be adapted to investments. If you like to invest in Copenhagen bonds, perhaps you would also like bonds in various Dutch cities..

There could even be shared blacklists, where a researcher works out which corps are greenwashing abusively and shares the findings.

There could even be a fedi component whereby a thread might host a discussion for each investment.

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