He doesn’t owe you shit. You don’t get to harass someone because you don’t like how they spend their free time.

Big “it’s your fault I hit you” energy.

That quote is just total nonsense. There has absolutely never been a “great man theory” of open source. The concept of “forking” is a fundamental aspect of the entire philosophy.

The individuals who do stand out stand out precisely because of their humility and how little (nothing) they ask in return for their contributions.

I expect better from David Gerard. Andrew Tridgell is an S-tier developer that is getting older, and has been asking for assistance for a long time. When help never arrived he turned to LLMs and is now getting insanely harassed for this decision by the exact same people who sat back and refused to help him.

If you ask me the real slop is articles like this from people who prefer to put their energy into bitching and moaning about how someone else spends their free time. The idea that it’s ok to bully someone for the “crime” of not maintaining “critical infrastructure” for free goes against everything FOSS stands for.

The Threadiverse feels a lot busier than 40k MAU but I suppose it’s possible we are all mostly the .01% of Reddit who wouldn’t (couldn’t) shut up.

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I recently tried asking Amazon’s AI a simple question about a product that had hundreds of reviews. It was a cheap thing, and I admit I was too lazy to verify the info so I went with what the AI said and bought it, and guess what the AI was just completely wrong and now Amazon is paying for me to ship it back.

I’m only seeing information about ChatGPT, Sora, Claude and Gemini… Where is the news about AI?

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No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.

Don’t let them distract with with the “whattabout matrix”. The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it’s a nonprofit.

Bluesky is not decentralized.

You are correct. The term is called “openwashing”. Now and then bluesky employees cultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind.

BlueSky is centralized.

It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms

Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.