I said that leftists shouldn't be doing open source platform development for libs and instead should be protecting lemmy with copyright so that libs can't use it. I was yelled at, but I will die on that hill maintaining I was correct.

[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand your argument. But I think @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml are big open-source people and want to give back to that community.

I can respect that for sure.

I am sure there has been some lemmy contributions from libs. So maybe there is some tangible upside to them being around. Lol

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not trying to like call the devs libs or anything, and I'm appreciative of their work. . I understand why intellectual property is bad, and how open source is useful for auditing. My argument is just that we don't live in a world where leftists can do open source development and it won't just be taken by libs to be used in ways other than how we intended it to be used.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We also don't live in a world where leftists can trust a project that isn't open source to not just be a Fed honeypot. Not that it's safe to use Lemmy to organize anything real, but at least I know they aren't leaking my IP to atomwaffen or those Florida Nazis.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

That's why I said that I understand how it's important for auditing. You can publish the code and still protect it with copyright. I suppose someone could still steal it, but that's a few more hoops to jump through.

[–] Florist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Well, they're getting paid for this shrug-outta-hecks