c/opensource · by Auster@thebrainbin.org · 36d

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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39 Comments

amio@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 36d (1 reply)

So the only thing you can confidently say based on this information is: it's 100% certain the entire codebase of Twitter will not be going open source.

gankouskhan@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 36d

Maybe the entire frontend so they can train on copyrighted data without punishment. Grok has been sassy with daddy and he is angry.

artyom@piefed.social · 56 pts · 36d (4 replies)

Let's add it to the list of lies:

musk is a "free speech absolutist"
FSD next year!
E2EE chats in Xitter

Keep it going!

Mihies@programming.dev · 28 pts · 36d

Roadster, Hyperloop, boots on Mars just to name the few

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 12 pts · 36d (1 reply)

Didn’t he promise to make the Tesla patent public and when it did they were decades old already public patents or a shit like that ?

Tempy@programming.dev · 2 pts · 34d

Aren't patents by definition public? You need them to be public to know you are running afoul of them.

Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 35d

Here is the list:

https://elonmusk.today/

one_old_coder@piefed.social · 35 pts · 36d (5 replies)

If it's not a lie, it's not worth it anyway, we have better things now. I do love the boot lickers who want to help him though.

IllNess@infosec.pub · 29 pts · 36d (3 replies)

This just a ploy to feed Grok.

Also their code isn't valuable. I want to see the algorithms and admins logs and bots.

myrmidex@belgae.social · 10 pts · 36d (2 replies)

isn't the algorithm part of the code? or is that split off into a separate repo?

adarza@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 36d

this is the idiot that took down twitter when he yeeted racks out of a data center and threw 'em into a u-haul.. ones that were still powered on and used by the site. so anything's possible... but i don't think even he would be so stupid as to release the algorithms or his special 'tweaks' to them.

IllNess@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 36d

Yes, it could be part of the code but you are also correct they can separate it out.

tazeycrazy@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 36d

It could be to crowd sourced bug fixes. I'm sure someone will be keen to give daddy musk all the help he needs.

Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 27 pts · 35d

You mean like last time when the whole world found out he added special privileges depending if the poster was Democrat, Republican or Elon Musk?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/twitter-posts-the-code-it-claims-determines-which-tweets-people-see-and-why/

joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 36d

An open source piece of shit is still a piece of shit

craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 35d

That's a pretty cool thing to do. But it's disingenuous how he goes "don't trust anything that isn't open source" after having operated multiple businesses based on closed-source software for years. Wonder if he will also open up the code for Teslas...

MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 36d

No thanks, you can keep it.

buran@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 35d

I'm pretty sure only the frontend will release but no server code will be released.

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 14 pts · 35d

The uber-rich are jumping onto the opensource bandwagon due to the hype. Just wait. They don't understand a thing about the philosophy but "free". Free labor, free publicity, and a better public image for free.

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 36d (10 replies)

So people will be able to fork it and add ActivityPub integration? :D

viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 8 pts · 36d (8 replies)

Why not Mastodon instead though?

nagaram@piefed.social · 5 pts · 36d

I mean, I use GoToSocial, people like Sharkey or Akkoma.

Who knows, maybe someone would prefer twitter for some reason.

Plain old Mastodon does seem the better option though

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 35d (6 replies)

I don't understand? Isn't Mastodon a subset of ActivityPub?

viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 2 pts · 34d (5 replies)

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?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 34d (4 replies)

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.

viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 2 pts · 34d (3 replies)

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?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 34d (2 replies)

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.

viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 2 pts · 34d

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.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 35d

Basically, nobody needs his shitty code. We already cooler stuff.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 11 pts · 34d

Yeah Elon no matter what you do, the geek/nerd crowd (that you imagine yourself to be a part of) will always hate you. You are stuck with toxic tech bros and racist pedophiles (including your daddy) for life. Enjoy.

prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 10 pts · 36d

For sure he will publish the algo he uses to advance the alt right.

kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@programming.dev · 10 pts · 36d

Melon Susk can go fuck himself with a cactus

Hairyfishnuts@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 36d

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Pika@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 36d (1 reply)

Didn't he already do this early 20's and then never update it past the original commit? Or was that only the algorithm.

fr0g@piefed.social · 5 pts · 36d

Something like that. I remember people finding the part of the code that upranks Elon's posts, so the algorithm seems to have been there/included.

uuj8za@piefed.social · 8 pts · 36d

I guess he wants free labor to work on it?