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TheCynicalSaint , to Open Source in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL

Well, this was an entertaining read.

velox_vulnus , to Open Source in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL

Slightly unrelated, but that website is beautiful. I've been trying to create a minimal-JS SvelteKit page, and I think I'll steal some parts of it.

RegalPotoo , to Open Source in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL
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Soooo... out of unrelated curiosity, have there been any significant security disclosures in Mastodon recently?

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aodhsishaj , to Open Source in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL
BrikoX OP , (edited )
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Have you bothered to read before commenting? They were compelled to release the source code before, but then they stopped doing that in December 20th, 2022.

GameWarrior , to Open Source in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL

Wow this is a great blog! Thanks for the recommendation.

Atelopus-zeteki , to Free and Open Source Software in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL
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From the end of the blogpost @ (https://boehs.org/node/truth-social): "Once again, this was absolutely not the outcome I expected. Some people might be disappointed by it. I might be relieved. After I sent that email, I was a little worried about what I was getting myself into. The Truth Social Legal Team. Imagine. But it went my way. The real takeaway is that you do have power. Don’t be scared of the big guys. Speak their language, play on their court. Stand up for what you believe in. You can win. Finally, I want to thank Truth Social for complying appropriately. While we couldn’t be further apart politically, I respect that they followed the law in a timely manner without a fight."

missingno ,
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Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Ultimately Did the Right Thing

maxprime ,

How is that heartbreaking?

RobotToaster , to Free and Open Source Software in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL
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the tl;dr is: he asked nicely for the source code and they gave it to him?

It's a shame they don't embrace federation and open source more, the drama it would create would be fun at least.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

They’re trying to build their own segregated social media community. I think federation is literally the last thing they want to do.

drwankingstein ,

There are good reasons not to federate, Legality is kinda murkey when it comes to stuff like this. Federation could (not saying it would) be used as a weapon against them. I mean, there are all sorts of instances on the federated networks, many of which do not comply with US law. Not just the real shitty stuff, But even instances that just don't care about DMCA for instance. It could simply be that Federation is just way too much of a hassle, which I really couldn't blame them. I did try to host my own federated service instance and it was just kinda too much.

jarfil ,
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If you want drama, then federate with Threads 🤷

ShittyKopper ,
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nah, there are plenty of truth wannabes (freeze peach bigotry safe havens) that actively federate. just look at literally any competent server's blocked instances list and you'll see a few examples. there's a reason why nobody* runs completely open federation

*: aside from people who're friendly with that crowd ofc

Jake_Farm , to Free and Open Source Software in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL
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Why are they fighting to have Truth Social pollute our federation?

smileyhead ,

No no, Truth Social doesn't need to federate. They want it to pushing it's source code as AGPL legally obligates it to.

eskuero , to Free and Open Source Software in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL
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some_guy , to Free and Open Source Software in You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL

I added the to my RSS feeds. If I continue to enjoy the content, I’ll consider adding to my Patreon subscriptions. Good article.

Cloak ,
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Sorry I missed this! Thank you so much for reading, subscribing, and considering a donation! (no pressure on that last one though lol)

Misanthrope , to Open Source in Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers
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In 2017, the project was purchased by the cryptocurrency company CanYa, and in 2020 it was sold to “The Blockchain Group”. Coincidently, around this time, the Bountysource project announced drastic changes to its terms of service, enabling them to steal unclaimed bounties after two years

Crypto ghouls strike again!

Cloak Mod , to Open Source in Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers
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Hi! I wrote this <3

BrikoX OP ,
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Hi. Could you add a link to your Lemmy account to any other source? The website/GitHub/Mastodon/Liberapay doesn't mention this account.

Cloak Mod ,
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Sure! I've been meaning to depoy hedgedoc for a while now and this seems like a good use. Here you go: https://doc.boehs.org/s/socials

7heo ,

Also, could you please update the title of your fediverse post? The article now says 21k 🙂

BrikoX OP ,
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Updated.

dinckelman , to Open Source in Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers

That’s incredibly scummy. If it were huge corporations, it would be a rounding error no one would care about, but this is OSS community members we’re talking about

halm , to Open Source in Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers
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Funny how Bountysource deteriorated at the exact time cryptocurrency got involved.

MichaelTen , to Open Source in Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers
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Are there better open source bounty sites/systems?

BrikoX OP ,
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Some options are listed here https://www.oss.fund/categories/bounties/

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