I see the backend and front end released. The back end is AGPL and the front end does need a license (assumed it had one, my bad). Assuming he puts the same AGPL license on the front end, I don’t see anything unsubstantial? The community gets to make squooshloops or whatever name comes up and the backend and front end belongs to them at that point to release on their hardware.

It’s all ActivityPub, so mastodon users wouldn’t miss see a thing go wrong? Start subscribing to squooshloops.social accounts from your instance’s deprecated Pixelfed software like nothing happened because the squoosh devs were smart to make it compatible with other ActivityPub apps. Once adoption hits a masse, and maybe ActivityPub specs changed, and squoosh added new things to their spec that other services expect or depend on, new versions of squoosh and other activitypub software stop trying to be backwards with the unmaintained pixelated and loops.video software. Those instances are forced to use a fork or stop federating with those other instances who no longer support the old stuff. The world keeps moving and remember that time when squoosh was originally that failed loops thing.

Kinda like how Chrome has its roots in WebKit which has its roots in KHTML which has its roots in KDE. I’m not seeing a problem honestly. Yes, KDE’s konqueror is dead (rip, I used KDE and loved that jelly K browser icon ever since I was like 12 in 2005). It lives on in chromium though, and has spread all over the world because of electron. Very weird story for that browser, but it somewhat shows my point: open source doesn’t die. It isn’t perfect — lots of valid complaints about chromium and electron, but none of the valid complaints are “that idea is gonna die if Google dies”

Free as in speech vs free as in beer (someone other than me should probably make a better version of this). Of course the cathedral is better, and if all mods were heavily incentivized to GPL then it wouldn’t likely be a problem. People like sticking with defaults in my experience.

What’s a good idea in open source that did die (and is still absolutely dead, even)? I’m sure you can find a GitHub project and be like “I like this idea and it’s dead” fine. But these projects are so used and popular… they aren’t going anywhere. That’s the context of this discussion. These apps are fine if the dev leaves because they are open source now. The right people will continue the work of this guy goes I think.

New to open source? Good ideas don’t really die in open source. If loops.video or Pixelfed are good ideas, open source will just do its thing because no one owns the idea once it goes open source

r/ChangeMyView

I’m just a passive observer and it’s fine. You can assume it’s a bot but that’s not on them. They seem legitimate and my assumption is maybe English isn’t their first language.

You can trademark the word poop though

I only care about copyright while it exists. If copyright is abolished and there’s no such thing as intellectual property then I’m happy with that as well.

No one should have the right of using police with guns to maintain the ownership of ideas and our culture. I don’t want this power. I don’t want you to have this power over my neighbors. I don’t want the Disney corporation having this power over my friends and family. But if capitalists wield that power against the common man, then I’m not against the common man wielding it against the capitalist.

I’m okay with using copyright against only those that have more power than me. I don’t ever want to threaten a normal human being with it, only capitalists.

I’m not against all cases of generative ai, code or visual. I’ve had legit use cases for them, and in a post scarce world we wouldn’t care about these things being made in a completely floss way. If copyright were to last only 15 years after publication then I think the world would be much better and we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But I won’t argue ai stuff as it currently stands—it is a grift or a stockpiling.

I’m a software engineer and I have been playing guitar nearly every day since I was 8 years old. I release everything GPL/AGPL or CC-BY-SA that I own and can. Heck, I am racking every day trying to figure out ideas that can hopefully make me a living while also giving everything I have away. I don’t want to own my shit man, I just want to share what I have and hope it’s useful, and I don’t want people being assholes so I opt for the copyleft instead of liberal licenses.

You are fighting a losing battle. I understand why you think that, but the organization that owns the trademarks of open source do not agree with you (or me). I also disagree with that organization’s definition of open source AI, but they own the legal right to define the meaning of “open source” in the technology trade, the trade in which they own the trade mark. But laws are laws and you either abide by them (as a corp, what are you gonna do?) or don’t (fuck yeah, commit crimes).

Weights are the only thing you’ll get from “open source” ai. You need to look for stricter legal definitions to meet your understandable criteria.

I started using Twitter in 2009. It was just techy people back then. Things are allowed to take time and grow organically.

IRC and email isn’t dead and they are completely anonymous. Web ain’t gonna die. TCP and UDP ain’t ever gonna die. HTTP ain’t ever gonna die. HTML ain’t ever gonna die. JSON isn’t even part of the web but it de facto is now. At this rate JS ain’t ever gonna die unfortunately. The web is safe. The internet is safe. Everything is open and it can’t be taken away or killed.

Think of it like climate change. The internet is going to be just fine. Its whoever is trying to benefit from digital IDs that will go extinct on it, and the internet will have healed itself from them.

Pixelfed allows video?

Can you post pictures of a tank event in the 80s in China without censoring? Can you talk about these protests ?

Daring fireball is a very popular blog. The guy invented markdown. He’s a very known Apple apologist. It’s not wrong for someone who knows Daring Fireball to assume anything he says positively about Apple or in defense of Apple has potential for his fanboy bias.

You can say fuck you to America without supporting other capitalist or otherwise authoritarian nations, and instead support anti capitalism by using decentralized networks. I won’t slurp on Winnie’s hunny pot to say fuck you to Uncle Sam, but you do you lemmy.ml

Real anti capitalists learn Esperanto

oh bless your heart 😌

Apologies for the southern passive aggressiveness, but I believe you may not notice how much content is an ad

I know that advertisers love that TikTok knows when a user desires your product. I wonder why they can target you so well? All state sponsored social media, X and Meta and company as well as TikTok, should be avoided if you don’t want corporations and capitalists and authoritarians having that much information about you. If you hate corporations trying to sell you things, maybe don’t use a dopamine and social habit tracking app that’s designed to sell ads to play on your fears

Id question the intelligence of anyone who used any app specifically because of a country associated with it when it’s not an app about countries. Going to Chinese apps just because TikTok gets banned is kinda silly imo, but then again I don’t use state-sponsored social media like TikTok or instagram etc