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Happy #GlobalSwitchDay (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 38 points 23 hours ago

Signal is centralized, loops is closed source and not accepting new users.

[-] Esmoreit@lemmings.world 17 points 23 hours ago

Loops will be open sourced later they say.

Is Loops open source? It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 21 points 22 hours ago

That really is not a satisfying answer. It is incredibly nebulous and even if it did have a nice definition I guarantee most software developers will tell you a lot of software rarely reaches that state.

I can see why they might want to avoid 1000 GitHub issues bike shedding things but they could open source the code and just not have open contribution

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago

Sometimes you’re ashamed of the ugly hacks you cobbled together to reach MVP, and you want to fix the stuff you know you need to fix first before being thrown to the wolves. I can respect that, for a limited time.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

or they can also disable submitting issues for now

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 11 points 21 hours ago

That means very little to me. Actions speak louder than words, and it would probably help the development of loops if it was actually open source.

[-] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 5 points 16 hours ago

Made by the same dev as Pixelfed, which did a similar thing.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Which I think dansup should deserve our trust on this for quite a long time for doing. It isn't empty promises if they already made Pixelfed and opensourced it.

Like.. I suppose it could be a grift, anything could but I see no reason to question their goals or motives.