Developers assume that all that code on the Internet must probably be open-source anyways. Cluelessly ignoring issues of attribution requirements, license compatibility, and the sheer lack of tracking of either by most scrapers. So far I've found one single model that even attempts to keep tabs on that, so you can imagine the ticking legal bomb that is the rest of them

@lowqualityfacts @waddre In fact, there's an interesting exception: "uniciclo", "triciclo", "cuadraciclo" but "bicicleta"

@waddre @lowqualityfacts In Spanish we do call them "cuadraciclos"

Yeah, that's the worrying part: believing themselves to be the Master Race merely for being already born into wealth.

Agreed. At most, we can call those "open weights" - but declaring a model open-source means that it must be trained exclusively on data compatible with free software and free culture licenses, and preferably be able to have each token be tracked back to the work it was originally trained on for credit purposes. The closest thing I've seen to this is the Comma LLM model, and even that seems to lack the latter capability. huggingface.co/common-pile/com…

Wondering if the anhinga's cries sound like "ANHINGA! ANHINGA!"

I wonder, how do XMPP extensions deal with the technical issues mentioned here.

@kerfuffle @Gargron Good question - and if the latter, how easy is it to export everything to a sovereign solution down the line?

@Gargron I'm surprised that you hadn't yet gone full libre in regards to your infrastructure. This also means you should reconsider moving out of Github for releases in the near future.

Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin and Residente have been very forward in their struggle for PR, for years in fact

@karlauerbach @gdinwiddie

and the Dole Pineapple company

One of these things is not like the others

@js @AliceStollmeyer Probably because Europe still can't afford to do so - barely anyone on the street knows there are open-source alternatives to most social networks, and so cutting them without warning would mean severed connections and people scrambling to reconnect with their audiences.

However! Friendica very recently released a new version that finally does something about the slow queries, by adding a cache for network channels. It also includes a few quality-of-life improvements. friendi.ca/2026/01/27/friendic…

Friendica is a dinosaur that predates Mastodon and prides itself on being hostable in any web host that accepts PHP with versions as low as 7.4. A Rust rewrite would no longer be Friendica, unfortunately. There's also the zillion forks of it (Hubzilla, Zap, Osada, Streams to name a few) and those, too, are still based on PHP.

Never mind, there is a version of Signal without Google libraries, but instead of using UnifiedPush like Molly does, Signal falls back to direct WebSockets, which requires much more battery consumption in the background unfortunately. github.com/signalapp/Signal-An…

Hold up, mainstream Signal has finally integrated MollySocket then?

As a user of Friendica for the last two years, I would have certainly agreed with you just a pair of weeks ago. Fortunately, the latest version of Friendica finally included the option to cache network channel data, at long last solving the problem of having to wait upwards of 30 seconds for the network tab to open. The "see more" option is an add-on for some reason, two in fact depending on which implementation you want to use, and either of them must be first enabled by the instance's administrator.

I also agree that there must be some way of making PeerTube natively compatible with subscriptions and "superchats", if we want YouTubers and livestreamers to be capable of using it as an actual replacement for their YT/Twitch channels. The only payment methods I've seen enabled for PeerTube as plug-ins are all cryptocurrency-based unfortunately.

@MartinaNeumayer @dansup @kitkat Molly, a fork of Signal that, among other things, has already removed Signal's dependency on Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging by replacing it with UnifiedPush and their own MollySocket service, is also working to implement an open-source version of the server under the code name Flatline: github.com/mollyim/flatline-pl…

Not being alive to defend her legacy due to a scientific accident, and having it then quietly snatched by a more senior scientist, are a one-two punch of injustice I was not exactly prepared for

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@flexion Makes sense to provide both at once, since Gopher and Gemini use a very similar syntax