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• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's funny seeing how different a reaction people have to the same basic thing happening.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Discourse is 100% open source. Meta is basically 0% open source. Big, big difference.

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    • 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.

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      • x1gma@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not a hate train, it’s being cautious. And do you really think that Meta is open sourcing because of their passion for FOSS and standing by those values? They’ve taken an internal framework they’ve build, open source it so that they can advertise how open and great they are on the page you linked, and after it gains traction (which it will, since it’s used by Meta it must be good /s) and can reduce their own internal efforts to a minimum, since the community will contribute. Open source may be a passion for the developers of Meta, but the company Meta does not give a single flying fuck about FOSS or the Fediverse.

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    • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • halm@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, if that’s your only concern — and disregarding that it’s a minority who would likely have the time, diligence and knowhow to actually confirm that you’re right — but Meta’s interest in directly leaked or scraped data is probably secondary to embrace-extend-extinguish alternatives to their services. Discourse doesn’t exactly have that motive.

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