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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

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[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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