For the record was he? Or was he just making a joke that didn’t land.

That’s funny because it’s not difficult at all to build an app like this.

It is a fuckton of unpaid work, it never feels right to talk about donating their time and effort like that.

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I have been making comments and posts on lemmy with a fervor that suggests I believe I am personally the one moving the whole damn line myself up on engagement. It is a delusion, and a useful one too lol.

I have had my Mastodon account for a bit more than 6 years, it is great, it is boring, sometimes I don’t use it for a couple of months at a time, sometimes I binge on it and sometimes I have small little issues but for the most part it just works.

The code isn’t available for the parts that aren’t open source? Just because a component of a system is open source doesn’t mean the entire system can be called open source.

That is a dangerous conflation to make in public discourse about this as it warps the conversation in artificial ways.

Make NO mistake if the entire system was actually open source they would have no way to lucratively monetize bluesky, and that is precisely what they will do.

The CEO of Bluesky has gone on record saying they haven’t ruled out monetizing through forcing ads on a system. Do you not understand that is functionally impossible to force ads on a fully open source system?

how can you be so stunningly naive

The entire appview layer is proprietary in practice and in spirit.

*an incomplete subset of Bluesky is opensource

Bluesky will follow the same enshittification trajectory Twitter did, it is just the beginning of the rollercoaster where the coaster is slowly brought up to the top to be launched… and everyone is exclaiming “wow I haven’t even thrown up yet!” as if that was any indicator of how much they were about to throw up…