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Elon Musk announced the entire codebase of X/Twitter will be going open source
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Elon Musk announced the entire codebase of X/Twitter will be going open source
Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2077361679034118271
Nitter bridge: https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/elonmusk/status/2077361679034118271#m
#opensource #twitter
Yes, Mastodon uses the activitypub protocol. That is basically my point, that we already have a 'federated twitter.' So, unless I'm missing something, what would be the point of forking and adding activitypub to twitter when we already have the better version in Mastodon?
I think their point was so that the fediverse people could also see Twitter posts and vice versa, which I guess some people would like, but some would block.
One of the complaints that people have about the Fedverse is that you're never exactly sure which instances interoperate with which other ones, and so somebody that other people are talking to might be blocked on your instance, and you might think, this fediverse sucks.
But honestly I think this is necessary for instance sovereignty and safety, so maybe people will get used to it.
I do think that people will probably get used to that aspect of the fediverse.
About the twitter bridge, I see your point. It wouldn't be twitter anymore though, it would be the [federated fork name] of twitter which would have to co-opt the current userbase which kind of again leads to the whole why not Mastodon already instead?
The way I interpreted it was if Twitter made their codebase open source, then people could submit pull requests that would add AP federation, and have them merged. But there's surely room for different interpretations of the original comment.
While I appreciate what you're saying, I don't really think the original comment we were discussing was open for interpretation. It was pretty specific about '...fork it and add[ing] activitypub integration.'
That being said, I do think it's an interesting thought and I hadn't really considered pull requests to the original code base to add AP. I feel like the likelihood of that actually happening are probably pretty slim though. Would be curious to hear what other people thought about that possibility too.
You are probably right. I think i discounted "make a fork of twitter and get people to use it" as just dumb since Mastodon exists already, so couldn't possibly be what they meant.
I'm going to hang my hat on how in github when you make a pull request, you have to fork the repo first :p