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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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(democracy-enhancing app) A tool to tell me which politicians and parties are my heroes and villains, according to my input on good & bad laws (Netflixify my policy votes) (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/foss_requests@libretechni.ca

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Is it not embarrassing to mankind that there are many big brains making a huge effort to improve Netflix film recommendations based on past movie votes by like ½% of accuracy, and yet we have nothing of a kind for lawmakers who have a much more impact on our lives?

Let me score various laws:

anti-immigration law X (-5 points)
shitty law Y that snoops on people on a mass scale without warrants (-8 points)
anti-cash law Z (-10 points)
GDPR: great idea, giant step in the right direction, but weak enforcement by severely understaffed DPAs (+8 points)
right to repair: going in the right direction, but took 10 fucking years just to get something that’s mostly toothless (+2 points)

I should also be able to browse laws that were never passed.. that got killed off and tossed aside; and score them too.

An app could harvest this information from the cloud, then use my scoring of various laws and ultimately work out which politicians and parties are my allies, and who are my adversaries. Then at election time I am not bogged down in last minute research that is mostly biased guesswork. I would have more confidence in my vote.

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