2016
Happy #GlobalSwitchDay (discuss.tchncs.de)
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A colorful image showing 8 global switch suggestions presented in three columns. Upper left is the fediverse logo with text Join the fediverse #globalswitchday. In total we see 16 platform logo's in their respected brand color and underneath each logo the name of the platform. All switch combinations have an arrow in the middle pointing to the right (from to). In the left column: X to Mastodon, Facebook to friendica. In the middle column WhatsApp to Signal, Instagram to Pixelfed and YouTube to PeerTube. In the right column: Reddit to Lemmy, Facebook Messenger to Signal and TikTok to loops.video.
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Loops will be open sourced later they say.

Is Loops open source? It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That really is not a satisfying answer. It is incredibly nebulous and even if it did have a nice definition I guarantee most software developers will tell you a lot of software rarely reaches that state.

    I can see why they might want to avoid 1000 GitHub issues bike shedding things but they could open source the code and just not have open contribution

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sometimes you’re ashamed of the ugly hacks you cobbled together to reach MVP, and you want to fix the stuff you know you need to fix first before being thrown to the wolves. I can respect that, for a limited time.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I mean maybe but you could also just say "we did some whacky shit here help us fix it please" and let the community help you in the effort. That's the beauty of open source. Then again they may have their reasons and frankly I'm not even interested in a TikTok like social media so w/e as long as they don't eat up their word it's fine.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That means very little to me. Actions speak louder than words, and it would probably help the development of loops if it was actually open source.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Made by the same dev as Pixelfed, which did a similar thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Which I think dansup should deserve our trust on this for quite a long time for doing. It isn't empty promises if they already made Pixelfed and opensourced it.

    Like.. I suppose it could be a grift, anything could but I see no reason to question their goals or motives.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    For a lot of FLOSS projects, it's common to keep the initial team small, so a product can be delivered fast, and gets opened up later.

    It's to solve the "too many cooks" and prevent bikeshedding.

    A lot of corpo espionage is there solely to tank potential competitors, which include FLOSS projects.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Loops is anti-libre software confirmed.

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