You are clearly just on the hate train that's currently gripping these threads and don't know much about Meta. They contribute a great deal to open source. Of particular note in the past year or so are the Llama large language models, which essentially did for large language models what StabilityAI did for generative art - they broke the dominance of big closed-source companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to get the open-source LLM movement rolling.
It remains to be seen whether they'll play nicely with ActivityPub or not, but it is far from a foregone conclusion.
There’s literally no difference from a Lemmy user’s perspective. It does not matter to us whether someone browses Lemmy from Sync (a closed source Lemmy app) or an open source one.
Except that since federating is a technical action we can look at, we can all of course see that it give Meta access to nothing that they couldn’t have scraped publicly.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah so unrelated to Facebook. Good
FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's funny seeing how different a reaction people have to the same basic thing happening.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Discourse is 100% open source. Meta is basically 0% open source. Big, big difference.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 10 months ago
You are clearly just on the hate train that's currently gripping these threads and don't know much about Meta. They contribute a great deal to open source. Of particular note in the past year or so are the Llama large language models, which essentially did for large language models what StabilityAI did for generative art - they broke the dominance of big closed-source companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to get the open-source LLM movement rolling.
It remains to be seen whether they'll play nicely with ActivityPub or not, but it is far from a foregone conclusion.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
There’s literally no difference from a Lemmy user’s perspective. It does not matter to us whether someone browses Lemmy from Sync (a closed source Lemmy app) or an open source one.
This is a nonsense distinction to make.
halm@leminal.space 10 months ago
The same technical thing, yes. The key difference really is whether or not a notoriously exploitative corporation is behind.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Except that since federating is a technical action we can look at, we can all of course see that it give Meta access to nothing that they couldn’t have scraped publicly.