Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 1 year agoTheir FAQ is an interesting read about their purpose-built protoco,l that I must admit sounds great - but whose source will only be disclosed when you’re already on board. “We will release the design and/or reference code to the public when the initial version is stabilized.”
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel like I just read a brochure for a product.
lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was doing it more as a wishlist or an idea board to draw opinions from - for lack of source code. Whoever did this, was quite thoughtful about risks, including the biggest of all - the ‘bus factor’.
I really liked the “Connect For Lemmy” app when I joined up - it has some great features, some not on Jeboa. The dev even said he’d open the source if there was interest but I now use Jeboa on mobile exclusively because Connect is still closed as far as I know. I am FOSS or nothing, if I an help it - especially in communications apps. If the source fails to materialise then I will forget this too - even if I can admire the skill & thought required to pull this off. The fedi is young enough to be unburdened by over-bearing tech debt. There is no reason why it shouldn’t be influenced by good ideas early before it becomes too costly in time, effort & complexity, to undo them later.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only thing though is that you spend a whole lot of time/verbosity describing in detail all the good points about the product, and then just mention it’s anti-FOSS nature at the very end of your long comment.
Usually someone very pro-FOSS will mention that negative up front.
lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or seek to implement those features in a free & open way; but the features have to necessitate the effort & if the features are not clarified then no effort, especially a distributed one can even begin to replicate them.