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Loops became Open Source! (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good ideas absolutely do die all the time even in open source. If the original dev doesn't want to play nice, it's actually pretty difficult to create a new fork that everyone will agree on. Hopefully these federated apps have enough inertia to prevent the userbase from splintering when the original devs move on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What's a good idea in open source that did die (and is still absolutely dead, even)? I'm sure you can find a GitHub project and be like "I like this idea and it's dead" fine. But these projects are so used and popular... they aren't going anywhere. That's the context of this discussion. These apps are fine if the dev leaves because they are open source now. The right people will continue the work of this guy goes I think.