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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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[–] 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