Strypey
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"Here’s the bit that might make open social web purists upset: all of this would be built by a for-profit public benefit company and run as a hosted service. At launch, there would be no open source component."

@ben, 2025

https://werd.io/2025/if-i-started-fresh

*If* it connects over open protocols, and *if* all user data can be exported in formats that can be ingested by an equivalent service, fine. Having the source code for software running on other people's computers is less important than a usable exit.
Strypey
activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
Having said that, let's remember to always ask "who does that server really serve?"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

... and that the importance of liberating source code for web services is the ease of standing up an equivalent service, so we have somewhere to exit *to*. Which is why the Franklin Street Statement pointed proposes libre licensing for "network services";

https://freedomdefined.org/Franklin_Street_Statement_on_Freedom_and_Network_Services
Strypey
activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Having said that, let's remember to always ask "who does that server really serve?"
gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-th

... and that the Franklin Street Statement pointed out the importance of source code for web services is the ease of standing up an equivalent service, so we have somewhere to exit *to*;

freedomdefined.org/Franklin_St