Don’t undermine the fact that Linus also made Git and I’m pretty sure some scuba diving app. Modern day essentials if you ask me!

Instead of hoping your instance does something, just make your own instance. That’s the whole idea.

Wait you mean the guy who made a free and open source operating system for everyone to share is left wing!?!?!? WHAT THE FFUUUU

The best and most affordable way for Elon Musk to “make the world a better place” would be to drop dead.

i think this is old spice admitting that xAI is total bullshit

Well, to be 100% fair, it’s all total bullshit.

Snowden really proved he wasn’t a Russian spy when he… check notes… immediately fled to Russia with troves of American secrets…

the accepted terminology nowadays

Let’s just redefine existing concepts to mean things that are more palatable to corporate control why don’t we?

If you don’t have the ability to build it yourself, it’s not open source. Deepseek is “freeware” at best. And that’s to say nothing of what the data is, where it comes from, and the legal ramifications of using it.

The way I see it, the most important thing right now is breaking up the biggest platforms. The biggest advantage that places like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok have right now is the network effect from having a fuck ton of users. But in a more fractured social media landscape, the tools that are the most open and federated will eventually come out on top.