"A recounting of dansup's hostility towards FOSS maintainers and the ecosystem at large" — wait what?
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Very good news, thank you very much!
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Is this not relevant, since this person is a linchpin in creating federated alternatives to those social media sites? And if he fails he drags them all down.
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Eh, the open source community can worry about the open source community. Those other things don't mean we have to put on horse blinders to others bringing awareness. No need to be dismissive.
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I had passed on Loops when it released because of those ToS. Looks much better now, so I might reconsider.
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Should we be apprehensive about using his projects?
The majority of [ gestures vaguely ] is created and maintained by individuals with varying levels of crazy. You think the six COBOL developers holding up every bank on the planet are totally sane and hinged?
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To be fair I'm sure most COBOL devs are on the verge of dementia.
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Fork or contribute to the projects. Easy.
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Dansup absolutely suffers from the instinct of not open sourcing stuff until it's fairly late in the stage of being an MVP, but I think that's largely because he's learning these technologies as he goes and is afraid of criticism on that front. Personally, however, I do not think it is the case that he does not believe in the Open Source project. I also trust him when he says he's working towards a nonprofit to distribute the load. It seems his first steps are to get funding via kickstarter to quit his job, and then I imagine organizing a nonprofit structure is next.
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True. But we are not the open source community. And the fediverse is not inherently open source by nature. ActivityPub is designed to be used by anyone.
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FOSS is a big part of the fediverse. Doesn't mean everything in fediverse is or has to... BUT it means it is very relevant to discuss.
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Should we be apprehensive about using his projects?
I mean, we certainly aren't, as evidenced by the fact that even with the whole power of numbers and community, an alternative hasn't sprung up yet. And that's the thing. Dansup is walking; most of everyone else is talking (shit).
