Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

• 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.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am FOSS or nothing

    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.

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    • 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.

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      • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        as I see it, the problem in your statement is that while you mention you’re pro-FOSS, you got overexcited by the claims of an unknown entity over technologies that you like and at the same time you have no source. Just promises. They could even be a startup that has just put all the buzzwords there while in fact on their code they don’t do anything of that and they just use a centralized server with symetric encryption and have the symmetric key stored in the code. The app will look like it works till proven that it is not. As long as they don’t want to publish their code, you getting overexcited (at least for me), is pointless.

        There was an example with a startup that was doing something similar to that, not in that magnitude with a stored key, but something equally bullshit until they were exposed. Quite early in their journey. Cannot remember the name right now but there was a good analysis by a researcher. If I remember it, I will add it.

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