Life is Tetris

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Corporates are involved in LLVM, Linux, GCC/GDB too, Go, Java, GraalVM, etc. too. Erlang came out of corporates too. These things seem too big to be done by volunteers. And Qualcomm probably bought them for their Max platform.

Mojo seems like good collateral output. Its base, MLIR, was already open. Their stdlib already was too.

eh, it runs on e-mail infrastructure; also, it does a little bit more than messaging.

You can use your usual e-mail ID, and message anybody else's e-mail ID, but securely only if they also use Delta Chat. To work around the big servers seeing your social graph, they recommend using randomly-generated IDs on always-encrypted tuned e-mail servers that they call "chat mail" servers.

Either way, you also get user-to-user web apps called WebXDC. This is something even some XMPP clients have added nowadays.

Do commercial apps work on such an installation? I have seen them get worse, checking for non-rooted, non-developer-mode-enabled, Google Play Store enabled, etc.

There has been the "4opens" criteria, that has been more on point than free/libre/open source.

In hindsight, defeating corporate and AI piggery might have needed single-maintainer closed source with open protocols. Software components? Maybe it would have led to the compound document model instead of the app model, architecturally enforcing openness.

True, I am looking for "get threads boosted by this account". If Mastodon did threads well, I would have stayed on it. I wouldn't care for it at all if I could also "follow" accounts on Lemmy (and the accounts that matter were on Lemmy).